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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-11-22, Page 40 I 4 dogs — new tricks :;iiasiaaeigaaeleaea MIN nemsCHARGEX Sinyth's:7,°1 MAIN ST, PHONE 235,19.3 EXETER WOMEN'S Snuggle-Bugs White, pink, blue, purple, gold, peach, turquoise From $4.50 KAUFMAN FOAM TREADS Prom $3.98 For Mom, Dad and The Kids AND BUGGY TO WORK TO DRAMATIZE. flaCilf614 Another myth has bit the dust — old dogs can learn new tricks. Jack W. Taylor, Pittsburgh executive development expert says the only thing holding oldsters back is — "negative attitudes and failure to. try". Taylor blasts the notion that creativity and the ability to acquire new skills diminishes rapidly after middle age. On the contrary: the capacity to think, learn, and innovate continues to grow. Even learning rates don't slip until long past 40. And then the rate shrinks a miniscule one- half of one percent a year until it reaches the level it was at age 16! Tests show that the scope and range of life exposure enables the older worker to more easily avoid fads and pitfalls that en- trap the young. The mature person's rich background of experience is especially useful in the field of creative problem ing. Contrast this with the short attention span, preoccupation with status and ad- vancement, proclivity for re-inventing the wheel — and grasshopper pursuits of the young. Proof? Jules Verne produced his more imaginative stories at 70. George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize near 70. Winston Churchill directed a war in his seventies. Voltaire did his best philosophical work between 60 and 84. Konrad Adenauer was chancellor of West Germany from 73 to 87, Joni° Kenyatta, they say, "is past the dying age" and so, for that matter, are Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-Lai. More than 64 percent of the world's great achievements have been produced by people over 60. Shower of gold WE BELIEVE that the honest, working people and companies across Canada are shocked at the new, increased rates of Unemployment Insurance contributions. We were told with very little advance notice, that as of Jan, 1, both the employee and employer contribution goes up 40% to 50 (7( The name of the game is that the Fund is going into deficit and some $2 BILLION will be spent this year to keep the pogey cheques coming! Well, this would all probably be quite acceptable if every Canadian felt that the UIC fund was being handled wisely. We all know that it is not. We all know that people quit jobs with every assurance that the UI will bail them out. We know that married women who quit work to have a child draw the money for months on end and that Lake sailors who make upwards of $10,000 a year can start to claim the minute the ships are tied up for the season in Sarnia. Of course, there are legitimate cases. But the general feeling seems to be that "I paid into it . . . I am going to collect". Peo- ple who retire at 65 for some strange reason, seem to qualify for months on end as well when they have no intention, at 65, to look for work. We know a young reporter, who once worked in Sarnia, who took his Volkswagen Van and is now living in the Yukon , on Unemployment Insurance. Why the devil does the law allow a 22 year old to draw such funds when he is able-bodied, healthy and trained to work? This is what makes UI unpopular . the obvious abuses of it. The Minister tells us that the UIC dis- qualified 200,000 people so far this year and that last year they disqualified only 65,000 persons, He tells the public that the Bill pending before Parliament which would have put teeth into the enforcement, has been withdrawn because "the local offices can handle the abuses best . , Every year that ruddy fund goes into deficit. And every year we know why it does. It is a veritable trough of golden coins for the lazy, inept, slothful and evasive AS WELL AS to those who truly deserve the protection. The employer gets stuck for twice what the employee contributes. He is inspected, checked, fined, harassed, brow-beaten and forced to do the books for Ottawa. People pay who know they will never collect one cent. Virtually no one is ex- empted, Why should a fireman, or Editor, or Policeman or City Manager pay when he will never ever benefit from his con- tributions? Everybody pays so every slacker in the nation can collect. We should all write our MP to tell him that this is patently unjust. There are too many loopholes that are never plugged, too many side benefits which are not merited, It is getting to be a great pain in the neck . . , this business of bailing out the "unemployed". Great God, there are more jobs available than people who want to fill them. If a person turns down a legitimate job he should not be allowed to draw unemploy- ment insurance or welfare. All in all, the abuses, real or imaginary, have created an image of mismanagement and waste. Little wonder there are objections to an increase with very little evidence of the crack-down needed to contain costs, The Sarnia Gazette Wnter makes us madmen Canadians take a perverse pleasure, I'll swear, in the per- versity of their country's climate. Give them a sunny, open winter, as we had last year, and they scowl, "Yeah, 'sheen a good winter, but we'll probably have a cold, wet summer." Give them a beautiful, hot, dry summer, as we had this year, and they grumble. "We need rain. Country's all dried up. It'll likely rain all fall." Give them a fine, warm, sunny fall, as we had this year, and they hint darkly. "Yup. 'Snice, but we'll pay for it. Any day now y' c'n get out the shovel." And when it finally does begin to snow and blow, as it has around here without cease for the past thirty hours, there's a sort of weird pride in the remarks, "Well, we hadda expect 'er, Haven't even got muh snowtiree on. But I got the snowmobile all tuned up. Turrible about the increase in oil," There's no increase in oil, unfortunately, only in oil prices. This winter, we may go back, as a nation, to long johns with Times Established 1973 collapsible seats, There's a sort of obscene triumph in the way your average Canadian stomps in out of the first blizzard of the year. Snor- ting, hacking, puffing, running at the nose, he roars cheerfully, "Izzen that a corker? Looks like we're in for it, Weatherman says there's more coming. Indians say it's gonna be the worst winter in years." And an endless series of anecdotes: couldn't get 'er started this morning; never thought I'd make the hill. And, chuckling with pride, "Haven't even got the damned storm windas on." This warped and diabolic gaiety in the face of what is bound to be one of the most crushing experiences possible, five months of stark, staring winter, makes me shudder for the sanity of my compatriots. Pakistanis and West Indians who shiver and turn purple every day for six months, must think we are a nation of madmen, when they first arrive in Canada, We are among the most Advocate Established 1681 vulnerable people in the world, when it comes to the vagaries of nature. And I am one of the most vulnerable people in Canada, when it comes to winter. I hate it, and it hates me. There are some people who love winter. Rotten little kids, for example. They greet the first snow with sheer delight, roll around in it, and the more it snows, the happier they are. I can scarce forbear from belting them when they chortle, "Wow!. Wasn't that a dandy snow, Mr. Smiley?" And then there are the winter sports idiots. When the skiers and the snowmobilers look out the window and croon, "Just look at that lovely white stuff", I could kick them in the groin without compunction. On the other hand, there are the elderly. Winter is almost literally murder, for them. No gardening, no flowers, no gentle walks in the sunshine. Instead, it means holing up, with the ever-present MIAS Amalgamated 104 Hews Item; Mrt5..eANDH 1 RIDES HORS • Two weeks ago, a member of the committee investigating the operations of RAP suggested the report to be submitted would be "shocking". Now that the report has been made public, it is fair to say that "shocking" was almost an un- derstatement, It could also be termed in- congruous to an extent, because despite the "inefficiency, carelessness, disinterest, conflict and tunnel vision" which the investigating committee discovered, it must be noted that Exeter's park, recreation and community centres facilities and programs are equal to — or exceed in many cases — the facilities and programs in communities of comparable size. There is certainly a need to keep in mind that the committee have not outlined some of the strengths inherent in RAP, which as John Stevens points out, can be built upon along with some of the recommendations made. While necessity dictates that such a study attempt to improve areas of weaknesses, it is un- fortunate that some of the strengths were not mentioned as a moral booster for RAP members and employees, so they have some incentive to effect the recommendations suggested. A look at the recommendations and observations indicates there will be little argument with some. Problems of "communications, lines of authority, positions of responsibility and job descrip- tions" are to be found frequently in public administration and unfortunately the number of "bosses" operating in public administration dictates that areas of communication, authority, responsibility and job descriptions be even more ex- plicit than they are in the private sector. The investigating committee has read this situation most clearly and it is one of the areas in which RAP and council should move quickly to bring about changes. The problem cited in park administration has been well spectre of pneumonia, or a slip on icy streets and a broken hip, or just the long, savage nights and the short bleak days. Not much fun there. And then there are the or- dinary, sensible people like me. We know that winter is a vicious brute with about as much of the quality of mercy in it as there was in Attila the Hun. Take curling. It is my only winter outlet, aside from shovelling snow, and scraping ice off the windshield with my fingernails, and cursing winter. Last night, after taking a year off the curling with a broken toe, I returned to the roarin' game. Early November, Looked for- ward to a pleasant game. Good weather, good skip. Had to curl at nine p.m, instead of seven. Drove to the rink in a bliezard. Nearly cracked up on the ice in the parking lot. Lost the game. Got home at midnight, every bone in my body screaming, "Rape!" Take my leaves. There are four inches of oak leaves in the back yard, covered by eight inches of frozen snow. My lawn chairs are still out, looking like forlorn relics of an iee age. And my storm windows aren't on. This is the most unkindest cut of all, And don't think my wife isn't cutting me up about it, Most unkindly. A politically astute political party, which wishes to per- petuate itself 10 perpetuity, as it were, would introduce a bill in parliament, packing all the old people and the sensible people, off to South Africa or somewhere, every winter, The savings in fuel alone, hi these energy-crisis days, would pay for the jaunt, Leave the whole barren waste to the kids, and the winter sports fiends, And let THEM pay the taxes, for a change. known to council and RAP members for some time now and hopefully the verbal chastizing they received will prompt them to resolve this matter, It should have been done years ago,! The general recommendations calling for an organizational chart, a sub-committee struc- ture, written guidelines and objectives and the use of advisory personnel make good sense, as does the suggestion for better organized meetings of RAP. It's one of the oddities of life that many individuals who organize their time and efforts to a high degree for their private and work endeavours are unable to accomplish the same in organizations. The recom- mendation also points out the need for such groups having effective leadership in their chairman. The need for looking beyond today and into the future goals of RAP in all its facets is another of the recommendations which is most worthy of consideration. + + + There are areas in which we question recommendations made by the committee. First of all, a look at the job description of the " "resources manager" and "program director" bring forth the' im- mediate question: "Who's going to do the work?". Using words such as "organize, control, direct, guide, supervise, allocate, evaluate" the com- mittee has not taken into con- sideration that the positions must be "working" positions in a community of this size. Good managers,organizers and such are required, but past ex- perience has shown that the resource manager must also be able to scrape the ice, sweep the floor, take tickets and the program director must be able to coach a ball team, referee a 50 Years Ago Sometime during Thursday night of last week, Horne Brothers' place near Zion in Usborne Township was visited and a set of harness was removed and a gravel box was taken off a wagon. They were taken back the land near the bush where the harness and collar were cut into pieces about a foot long and the gravel box was cut in two in the middle. The neck-yoke was also taken. The men of James Street congregation numbering over 100 gathered in the parlors of the church Monday for a social evening, Splendid addresses were given by Messrs. V.J. A J. Penhale and W. Shapton. The "Live Wires" a class of young men in the Main Street Sunday School met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aldworth, Sexsmith and enjoyed a very sociable time. An address was read by Maurice Ford while Ed Aldworth on behalf of the class presented Miss Follick with an ivory clock and a bottle of per- ftlme, 25 Years Ago Huron County Council endorsed the recommendation of the health and hospital committee and adopted a proposal for the for- mation of a public health unit in Huron Country. Mt and Mrs. William Sinclair, kippen marked their, golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday November 23, Residents of Hay township held a bee and ploughed 40 acres of land for Mr. Frank Wildfong who has been ill for several weeks. The apartment house on William St. owned by Mr. S. B Bow has been sold to Mr, Gordon Triebner. hockey game and other duties beyond merely planning. It is in this area that RAP will have one of the hardest jobs in knowing how to deal with the committee's recommendations, because the community is not large enough to be able to afford two "directors" whose job descriptions indicate no requirements for "work". We're more inclined to see the need for one person to undertake the duties outlined in the two positions suggested and free that person from some of the "work" so his time can be spent at the more important aspect of planning, controlling, organizing, superV'ising, etc., etc. + + + The committee recom- mendation regarding the operation of groups and organizations which are semi- autonomous is another area in which valid arguments will arise. Some control by and ac- countability to RAP is valid, but the recommendations would, we fear, not encourage initiative and resourcefulness as the committee suggests is needed. While RAP now has to meet the financial obligations of these organizations, they are not as great as they would be if RAP took direct financial control as the committee recommends. Another result could well be the lessening of participation by those in the activity or those helping organize the activity. Had the committee in- vestigated carefully, they would have found that such organizations as minor hockey Please turn to Page 5 15 Years Ago The Hensall Public Utilities Commission has officially opened its new $10,000 building on Main St. beside Twitchell's Garage. Mrs. William Schlegel, Grand Bend was crowned sweetheart of Beta Sigma Phi during the sorority's "La Parisienne" dance at the Legion Hall Thursday. Crediton's Bill Motz, popular ball star in his younger days and an employee at RCAF Station Centralia for the past 15 years, was honored Thursday night at his retirement party at the station. Stratford and provincial police recovered over $6,500 worth of jewellery and nabbed two suspects less than six hours after the Jack Smith Jewellery Store was robbed in Exeter early Wednesday morning. 10 Years Ago The only woman councillor elected in South Huron so far is Mrs. Minnie Noakes, Hensall, who was acclaimed Friday after John Lavender resigned his seat. Mrs. Noakes previously served on the village council. Reeves eleeted in the area were Stewart Webb by acclamation in Grand I3end; Glenn Webb by ac- clamation in Stephen; Norman Jonee in Hensall; Thomas Hall in McGillivray; and Elgin Thomp- son in Tuckersmith. Robert F. Love, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Love, Hensall has received his third fellowship from the Ford Foundation toward his doctorate studies at Stanford University, California in the field of mathematical inventory theory, A erowd of about 100 joined in a requiem sacrament for the late President John P. Kennedy in Trivia Memorial Anglican Church Monday, Have you heard about the man who had such wonderful plans for tomerrow? To start with, he swore he was going to be kinder and more thoughtful, tomorrow, He knew of a troubled friend who needed a lift and he certainly would go to see what he could do for him, tomorrow, In fact, there were a lot of folks he'd help, tomorrow, Not only that, he made a long list.of all the people he'd write a note of cheer to, tomorrow, He said it was really too bad he was so busy today and didn't have one spare minute, but he was sure there'd be plenty of time to do all these things, tomorrow. The world would have long remembered this man for all his good works if his 'tomorrow' had ever come. But the truth is, he passed on and quickly faded from everybody's mind. All he left behind was a mountain of things he intended to do, tomorrow How sad that many of us are like this poor man. We have great intentions but somehow we never get around to doing most of them. It's either too hot, or too cold, or we can't stand the rain, or the streets are too slippery, or something or other gets in our way, So, we drift along putting our good intentions on ice until they're quite frozen and useless. Perhaps you're like I am with a whole bagful of regrets; things I've put off until it's too late. How well I remember beingprompted again and again to write an acquaintance in the hospital but kept putting it off until one day I was stunned to pick up the morning paper and see her name in the obituary column. The flowers I sent to the funeral did little to ease the guilt and shame that flooded over me, Time is a precious element and not to be frittered away foolishly. Sometimes, a few minutes wiser' spent can alter the course of a life, On the other hand, a few moments wasted can bring on a sea of regrets and a sense of failure, The Apostle Paul knew the value of the time allotted to him and he advised the Ephesians: 'Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but making the most of the time, because the days are evil.' (5:15,16). We, too, can use our time to overcome some of the evils of our age: the loneliness, disap- pointments and other frustrations that beat upon our society. Good use of time is a source of joy too. The happiest people I know are the busiest ones who still have time to spread cheerand encouragement to the people in their homes, on their streets, in their community and in the world at large, They're able to do it by making the best use of every minute. No idle day dreaming of what they'll do tomorrow for them. They know the value of their time and how to use it. Any good we will do on this earth must be done now. This was the driving force in Jesus' life. He knew there was a great deal of work for him to accomplish in a very short time and He was in- tensely conscientious of the fact. Of course, it's useless for us to worry over opportunities we've already wasted but we owe it to ourselves and to God to stop putting off for tomorrow what we should be doing today. aTifeleffeareeeafialaKaNaaaMaaaaaaezamea aa' SERVING •CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A a CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor ea Bill Battert — Advertising Manager. Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor — Susan Greer Phone 235433t aaea-Ma aeea Publi hod Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario o Second- Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, Match 1072, 5,03=7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cenadit $0.60 Per Year; WA $11.60 • oaaraeaeea A look at that RAP report The Ten Commandments of Good Business A Customer is the most important person in any business. A Customer is not dependent on us, we are dependent on him. A Customer is not an interruption of our work, he is the purpose of it. A Customer does us a favour when he calls, we are not doing him a favor by serving him. A Customer is a part of our business, not an outsider. A Customer is not a cold statistic, he is a flesh and blood human being, with feelings and emotions like our own. A Customer is not some one to argue or match wits with. A Customer is a person who brings us his wants, it is our job to fill those wants. A Customer is deserving of the most courteous and attentive treatment we can give him. A Customer is the life blood of this and every other business. Wilson's Jewellery is based on this creed of Good Business