The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-06-20, Page 4Canada's youth is drowning in a flood of
booze.
Warns the Addiction Research Founda-
tion - "the endless regurgitation of beer
commercials featuring modish kids in
forests, boat and balloon indicates how vital
a market the young have become."
Warns Gerald Le Dain, head of the
commission on non-medical use of drugs -
"alcohol is the worst curse affecting socie-
ty today."
A nation-wide survey shows dramatic
escalation in alcohol problems among youth
- since the legal drinking age was dropped
from 21 to 18 in April 1971.
Manitoba teenagers have moved from
hard and soft drugs to alcohol, and Nova
Scotia reported only two persons under 20
treated for alcohol problems in provincial
hospitals during 1970, while 20 patients
were admitted in 1971.
In Quebec 14-year-olds sneak into pubs
and taverns and in Toronto drinking among
high school students doubled since 1970 -
while marijuana and hashish usage climb-
ed 10 percent and LSD dropped.
The public must find out the inter-
relationships between drug usage and
alcohol. A royal commission should be set
up to determine if raising the drinking age
back to 21, will cause kids to just sink
deeper into drugs. Meanwhile, those seduc-
tive, youth-oriented beer and liquor ads
should be banned from the media.
—Contributed
Trash can be used
If you can imagine a trash can holding
more than 1,500,000 tons of garbage, you
have a picture of just what Toronto really
needs. During this year, garbage trucks
will pick up in Metro an estimated 1.59
million tons of trash.
Metro Works Commissioner Ross Clark
must find some way of burying or burning
almost half a million tons of garbage this
year for which no solution has been found -
and obviously nobody expects him to do it in
his backyard.
In reality, garbage disposal is a serious
matter that demands the attention of all
Canadians who are more fortunate than
most people in that we have a very large,
relatively underpopulated land.
What do other peoples do with trash?
New Yorkers each year have millions of
tons shipped about 10 miles offshore to be
dumped into the Atlantic. Hong Kong does
the same in the Pacific - but it works there,
whereas New Yorkers have been warned
about the growing slick of filth floating off
their shores.
Some U.S, cities have their trash com-
pacted into solid blocks, as large as a
kitchen table and hard as concrete. These
are then hauled by rail to outer suburban
areas for landfill projects. No smell. No
need to wait for years before the garbage
rots, It's expensive, but it works in the
cities willing to pay the price.
Scientists are experimenting with ways
to burn tash - and in the process to produce
a gas that could be used for heating. But
most experts admit they are still searching
for a cheap, convenient way of removing
the mountains of trash that accumulate in
cities every day.
The truth is that the global garbage dis-
posal situation remains a great big mess!
Dire consequences
Safety inspectors have been busy in
the area recently and a number of changes
have been laid against contractors who fail
to enforce regulations under the Safety Act.
It's difficult to get men to change
habits developed through the years, par-
ticularly when they can point to the fact
they have escaped any injury while perf or-
r, ming,4he job in the same manner for those
many: years.
.A.,;4HoW,Aver, statistics point out that con-,.,
struction and safety accidents continue to
climb, and those who fail to comply with
safety rules are stacking the odds against
themselves.
The accident which claimed the life of
an Exeter man this past week points up
most vividly what happens when safety
rules are violated.
The consequences should surely prove
to all concerned that an ounce of prevention
is still the best policy.
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Had a birthday recently. Some
people, especially women, are
rather daunted by certain bir-
thdays.
For a young, attractive
woman, having her thirtieth
birthday is almost as horrible a
prospect as having all her teeth
out.
After a couple of years in the
early thirties, she realizes that
she is really just coming into her
best period, that of a mature
woman, still mighty attractive,
and with a new emotional
maturity she didn't have in the
Gay Twenties. She's in the Flirty
Thirties, and enjoying it
thoroughly.
But with the fortieth milestone
looming, panic sets in anew. She
suddenly is convinced that
anyone in the forties is over the
hump, headed into a wizened old
age.
Strangely enough, after a
couple of years in her early
forties, she admits to herself and
anyone else who will listen, that
she's in the prime of life.
She can still draw a whistle
when the light is right, get her
bum pinched if the party is rowdy
enough. She's probably a
grandmother, but she's a
"young" gramma. With a good
dentist and contact lenses, she
can disguise the fact that her
teeth are still there only through
but not daunted
sheer will power, and that she's
blind as the proverbial bat.
Then that grim reaper, the
gaunt visage of Fifty, comes over
the horizon like a wolf sweeping
down on a lamb. This time, there
is no panic. Just sheer despair.
She knows, with a little
mathematics, that anyone in the
fifties is away past Middle Age,
and has one foot in the grave and
the other on a piece of dog
defecation. She is OLD, and
there's no hiding the fact.
Yet five years later, in her mid-
Fifties, she's striding about a golf
course, or screaming "Sweep!"
at the curling club, or lying by a
pool in Florida, holding in her gut
and convinced she's in the Golden
Age,
Of course, Sixty is IT. The old
man with the scythe is lurking
everywhere. There's no longer
any way of disguising the
wrinkles and the wattles. At 62,
she gets a good tan, hides the
eyes with shades, and maybe
even has the jowls tucked up
beneath the ears. And a good
girdle does wonders.
At 65, she's collecting late
huband's pension, living in a
house with the mortgage paid,
and jaunting off to Europe or
California, where she picks up
her second husband, a well-off
widower. She's never had it so
good.
At 80, widowed again, she's a
swinger in Sunset Haven, playing
bingo and the piano, and giving
the eye to every fresh oc-
togenarian who enters the place.
And that's how women are
daunted by birthdays. Per-
sonally, I am never daunted. I
have a lot of dents, but not a
single daunt.
Things have changed a lot
around here. My birthday used to
be a small something. Carefully
coached by their mother, the kids
used to come up with gifts which I
— aw, shucks, you shouldn't have
done it— accepted gratefully and
gracefully. Nothing great. Maybe
a fishing-rod or some golf balls.
And the old lady would bake a
cake — a ready-mix.
When they were older, away
from home, they'd call (collect)
on the occasion, wish me Happy
Birthday, and suggest that they
could use a little financial aid.
Now, I call them up, and after
the usual exchange of amenities,
ask coyly, "Know what day this
is?"
"Yeah. Sunday. Why?"
I try again. "No, I mean what
day of the month?"
"Not really; wait'll I check the
calendar."
I try again. "No, I mean what
You never know until you try!
That's the motto of most op-
timists and despite the many
setbacks they may encounter, it
is amazing to note the many
things they accomplish only
because they try.
As an example, residents of the
southern part of Exeter have a
new mail drop box in their
vicinity because they decided to
take some action.
A couple of members of Exeter
council were very cool to the
suggestion when it was first
broached by Councillor Ben
Hoogenboom on behalf of a
couple of local residents, but
when he appeared two weeks
later with a petition, they had
little choice but to at least fire off
a letter asking for the facility on
behalf of the petitioners.
Within a week, not only had
approval been received for the
mail drop, but the box was ac-
tually delivered to town and
ready for use as soon as the move
to the new post office building is
undertaken.
It's not an earth-shatterihg
accomplishment by any stretch
of the imagination, but it does
prove once again that "you never
know until you try".
+ + +
The Bank of Canada recently
released new $1 bills to the
chartered banks in the nation. It
carries a portrait of the Queen on
one side and a picture of the
Houses of Parliament on the
other. It also has a little more
color than its predecessor.
With rampant inflation, that $1
bill is really worth about 53 cents
in spending power in comparison
to the original issue in 1954.
Perhaps the Bank of Canada
should be encouraged to save
paper and at the same time
reflect the true value of the dollar
by making it about half its
present size.
+ + +
The contradiction in one part of
Canada's economy continues.
Unemployment is increasing on
one hand, while on the other,
firms are having difficulty fin:
day of what month of what year?
How old are you? How do you
know how old you are? What day
reminds you?"
"Oh, golly, Dad. Why didn't
you tell me it was your birthday?
I would have sent a card. Or
something."
No, I am not daunted. But I
never, ever, forgot my father's
birthday, Let's see, I can still
remember it. It was April 3rd. Or
was it November 3rd? Anyway, I
always sent him a card, even if I
didn't remember until a month
after the occasion.
Anyway, I got one call on my
birthdaythis year.It was from my
big brother. After grumpily
asking me what I was doing in
bed at noon on my birthday, he
revealed the real purpose of his
call. He wanted to know if I had
my little brother's address in
Germany. I didn't, Some bir-
thday greeting,
But I did receive one birthday
card which touched me deeply. It
was from my insurance agent. He
never misses.
This is
Senior Citizens
Week
"Living everyminute of it"
is a philosophy that applies
to any age group. It simply
means making the most of
one's opportunities and
enjoying life to its fullest.
ding enough labor for seasonal
harvesting jobs.
To ease the latter predicament,
many firms and the government
have joined in their annual
program to import labor from
other countries.
To ease the predicament, of
unemployment, of course,
unemployment insurance is
provided for those in this country
who can't find work.
An easier solution to the whole
problem appears to be evident.
Why not have the unemployed
people in Canada do the work
being undertaken by the workers
being brought in from other
countries?
That would appear quite
simple, but unfortunately many
of those who are unemployed
wouldn't undertake that type of
work and in this nation it appears
that one does not have to take
work that is not to one's liking.
That's a policy with which we
would argue.
As long as jobs are available,
many of those on the unem-
ployment roles should be advised
to take those jobs or miss out on
their unemployment insurance
payments.
But, that's probably an old-
fashioned attitude!
+ + +
Believe it or not, in less than
three weeks the voters of Canada
will be going to the polls to choose
the next government.
To date, the election has
generated about as much interest
as many of those unemployed
people have in working. It's
almost non-existent.
That lack of interest no doubt
50 Years Ago
Rev. R. E. Southcott of
Gowganda, Northern Ontario, is
spending his holidays at his home
in town.
At least three town children
have been successful in winning a
big "mamma doll" in the
Advertiser contest. The winners
are Jean Walper, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Walper; Jennie
Passmore, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Passmore and
Helen Penhale, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. J. Penhale,
Messrs. R. G. Seldon, J. A.
Stewart, George E. Anderson and
William Rivers were in London
this week attending the Thistle
Club scotch doubles.
Warren the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred May had a narrow
escape from being' poisoned 'on
Wednesday morning last. He and
little Jean McEwen were out
playing together and getting hold
of some toadstools he ate a
portion of one, thinking it was a
mushroom. A physician was
called and administered proper
antidotes and the little lad was
soon himself again.
25 Years Ago
Atthe laying of the cornerstone
of the new Exeter District High
School Wednesday afternoon R,
N. Creech realized the crowning
achievement of his long years of
service as a member of the
Exeter Board of Education,
Town council approved the
final plans and tender forms for
the William Street storm sewer,
Clerk C. V. Pickard was in-
structed to call for tenders.
Grading for the site of the
$25,000 new community centre in
Hensall is being done this week.
Lucan High School graduated
its final class this spring and now
Lucan pupils will travel to the
new East Middlesex Collegiate at
Arva,
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proves that people didn't want an
election and certainly they didn't
want one in the summer.
However, there is an election
and voters still have a great
responsibility facing them in
choosing the best possible can-
didates and party to represent
them until the next election rolls
around.
While the cost of living is the
main platform for the PCs and
the Liberals campaign on the
leadership of the Opposition,
indications are that the people
are more concerned with the high
costs of government.
London's Colin Brown has
received an enthusiastic return on
his advertisements across the
nation in which five questions are
posed. Essentially they are
asking the three parties why the
cost of government is so high,
why it is rising so fast and when,
if ever, it will begin to level off.
It seems the London in-
surance executive has touched
on some kind of nerve among
what he calls "the silent majority
people".
Ten days after the first ad-
vertisement appeared, he had
received 12,000 coupons and
$20,000 in donations.
The returns indicate that Mr.
Brown may be able to generate
some interest in the election
before the campaign ends,
because, if the coupons keep
coming in the three major parties
may have to include some
discussion on government
spending in the waning hours of
the election.
15 Years Ago
Four Scouts from Exeter, Doug
Jermyn, Jim Sweitzer, Doug
Hodgson and Dale Turvey were
among the 25 honored at a
Queen's Scout recognition ser-
vice for the Bluewa ter region at
Harriston Friday night.
Grand Bend Lions Club has
completed arrangements to
present TV songstress, Joyce
Hahn, as the feature attraction at
its annual ball to be held im July.
Exeter Girl Guides paid tribute
to a sister, 12-year-old Lynne
Harper bf Clinton, Saturday
afternoon by forming a guard of
honor for the funeral procession
which passed through Main
street on its way to burial service
at Port Stanley. The Clinton Girl
Guide's body was found in a
woodlot near RCAF Station,
Clinton.
Council passed a bylaw
exempting Exeter Legion's
Memorial Hall from all taxes
except those for school and local
improvement purposes for a
period of 10 years.
10 Years Ago
Ed Brady, Exeter, recently
won the western jumping class at
the Southwestern Ontario Hor-
semanship Club horse show at St.
Thomas.
Canvassers will be calling on
residents in the district next week
in connection with the upcoming
mass TB survey
Several lads from SHDHS
walked out of school after exams
Monday and immediately headed
for another school term — at the
Conservation School being staged
by the Ausable River Con-
servation Authority at Camp
Sylvan.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Learn and
Fred and Mrs. Norah Taylor flew
from Melton airport Thursday
for a ten-day visit in England and
on to Germany,
Love has good manners and does
not pursue selfish advantage.
I Corinthian 13:5 (1, B.
Have you ever joined a group of
people who continued to speak
their native tongue even though
they knew you couldn't un-
derstand it and you knew they
could speak English fluently?
What was your reaction?
Likely you were more than put
off, and I'm sure you'd be
justified in thinking they were not
only insensitive to your feelings
but rude and ill-mannered as
well.
It strikes me that some of we
Christians are among the most
bad-mannered of the lot. We may
want to share our religion with
others ...indeed we have been
commissioned by Jesus to do
so . but we often insist on
doing it in ways that turn people
away from Christianity instead of
bringing them into it.
Take the language we use.
Some of it must sound as archaic
and bewildering as the year 1274
tax forms. Phrases like 'being led
to the Lord', 'sharing what's on
my heart,' under conviction' or
'witnessed to' and a host of other
cliches have little or no meaning
for the average modern man., If
we think we're impressing people
by our sanctimonious 'talk' we're
sadly mistaken, It not only
doesn't enlighten them, it only
makes them feel more like
outsiders.
Jesus and the first Christians
spoke in a manner that everyone
could understand. Surely we can
try to do as much. I'm not con-
demning this language (anymore
than I would condemn French or
German) it's just that I believe it
should be spoken only when
fellow Christians who enjoy
speaking it get together, It's quite
lovely, really, when used as a sort
of family language when all
By E LMOR E BOOMER
Counsellor for
Information South Huron
For appointment
phone: 235-2715 or 235-2474
Written this Week
By MADELYN DeJONGE
So' your doctor has just
suggested (directly or indirectly)
that you should check in to a
Psychiatric hospital . . . Now
what? It's enough to depress
anyone.
In case this sends you off to
search for some information
somewhere about psychiatric
hospitals, I hope the following
might be helpful,
There is a new emphasis called
"Change Over '74" at the London
Psychiatric Hospital where I
have worked for the past four and
one half years. What this means
for you is that you may not have
to go to a psychiatric hospital for
in-patient care.
You may be able to talk to a
counsellor, or to bectome involved
in one of the out-patient
programs.
The Hospital has regionalized
its services. Th ay have separated
the hospital outreach into three
regions, North London and
Middlesex, South London and
Wellington, Waterloo - Oxford.
The hospital feels it can give
better service to the communities
and individual within the com-
munity by working more closely
with different helping agencies in
their regional areas.
So now when a person is ad-
mitted or seeks help from one of
these areas, they can receive
better follow-up care after
treatment. This will be done by
working with local doctors,
teachers, social workers and
hospitals in the catch basin of
each region.
London Psychiatric Hospital
feels that they have several
programs to offer to the com-
munity, i.e. Behaviour,
Modification, Adolescent
programs, Merimna - which
consists of day and evening
programs for outpatients,
Moditen Clinic, Mental Health
Clinic, Self-Care program and a
very exciting, modern Geriatric
program. So much is being done
today to keep Geriatric patients
motivated and active,
We have four special wards for
Senior Citizens. Modern
techniques and chemotherapy
are helping people to live longer,
There is a need today to
recognize depression and social
problems in senior citizens, that
can be treated so that they may
go on and lead useful and happy
lives in their own homes.
Today we on the Mental Health
team are still dealing with the so-
called stigma attached with a
mental hospital, I would like to
take this opportunity to tell you
about the new Psychiatric
Hospital in, London„
People imagine that patients
are locked up in padded cells,
Nothing could be further fromthe
truth. I have heard people refer
to the London Psychiatric
Hospital as the Big Brick
present understand it.
Does it surprise you that many
a person is turned off because of
the appalling lack of good
manners by practicing
Christians? It's true. I know
because I've talked to many of
them.
"I've been introduced to 'that'
woman three times," said a
friend referring to a bulwark in
one of our churches, "and she
still doesn't know, me when she
meets me on the street."
Why? Because 'that' woman
never really sees the person to
whom she's being introduced.
She draws her lips over her teeth
in a tight smile while her eyes
quickly search the rest of the
crowd to hunt out the leaders,
special friends, or someone she
considers more important.
Another aquaintance confided
this to me about a certain good
lady, "I'm sure if I told her my
kitchen sink was plugged she'd
quote scripture to me, Scripture
is alright . , . but there are times
when all I want is help without a
sermon larded with Bible ver-
ses."
No one likes the feeling of being
used, yet I suspect that a great
many receivers of our so-called
Christian bounty feel that way. If
we make a hundred trips to the
hospital to visit the sick, or
witness to dozens of people just so
we can tell about it in our
testimony then we are only using
people as objects to pursue our
own selfish ego-building in-
terests.
Jesus had a genuine regard for
people. He liked them and was
interested in them whatever their
state or condition, He was never
ill-mannered and his
graciousness drew people to him
in droves.
It's still the best way to bring
others into the Kingdom of God.
Building, In the future, all the old
building on the hospital grounds
will be torn down.
Today we have in our com-
munity a very modern hospital,
with complete laboratory, X-ray
and operating theatre facilities.
All patients are given a complete
physical examination and if
anything is found wrong, they are
sent to a general hospital for
further care. All wards are like
wards in a general hospital.
They are bright and cosy.
The patients are assessed in-
dividually when admitted and the
staff set up to individual
programs for each person. Our
programs consist of Talking
Therapies, Family Therapies,
Marriage Counselling,
Occupational Therapy, Industrial
Therapy.
We have several fully qualified
Psychiatrists on staff, plus fully
trained Psychiatric nursing
personnel , social workers,
psychologist and counsellors plus
a very active recreational staff.
Patients are kept busy most of
the day in different programs.
Visiting hours are from 11:00
a.m. until 8:30 p.m. We try and
work with the whole family
where problems exist. We try and
help a person to learn how to deal
with their own individual
problems and also to help
families deal with the problems.
We are hoping that people will
work through their own personal
physician, public health worker
and social worker in their own
communities. These people will
then refer the person to one of the
hospitals many programs.
Out .-patients programs are
increasing because we try and
help people before they need to be
hospitalized. Merimna and
mental Health Clinic are only two
such programs available. We
hope by working with community
agencies that we may cut out
duplicating services.,
People can make appointments
at the hospital and trained
counsellors will refer people to
the right agencies in their own
communities. But I would like to
urge people to contact their own
doctors, ministers and social
workers in their own com-
munities first.
If anyone would like further
information the hospital has a
Public Relations number. Please
phone 455-5110.
During the last four and one
half years I have watched many
changes which have meant
improved care to patients. Our
hospital stay on my ward is
approximately five to six weeks.
With new drugs and new
therapies , we hope to improve
this.
Today our patients are taking
an active part in making our
community work after discharge.
Today there are very few people
who need to be hospitalized.
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