The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-11-21, Page 4Voters have responsibility
Think small. A review of the area municipal election
scene indicates a "feast or famine" situa-
tion.
Several officials were returned by
acclamation and in two communities se-
cond nominations will have to be called to
fill vacancies due to a shortage of can-
didates. In other municipalities, electors
will have a wide choice when they head for
the polls.
While there appears to be no major
issues in any of the election battles, voters
should be aware of the fact that it is a time
for strong leadership on their councils.
Hensall, Grand Bend and Exeter, for
instance, are facing mammoth sewer pro-
jects in the next couple of years. All com-
munities will no doubt be making decisions
regarding more centralized government
bodies.
At the same time, there is no question
but what all councils will face the need for
better planning and the setting of priorities
not only for the year ahead, but also for the
next five years ahead.
That suggests the need for men and
women who are prepared to not only handle
the daily affairs of their communities, but
also have the foresight to look into the
future and plan the course that best suits
the needs of their ratepayers.
Voters can not afford the luxury of
marking their ballots for candidates strict-
ly on the basis of personality or the fact he
or she may be a "good guy".
It's a time when leadership is of prime
importance and votes should be cast with
that fact in mind.
While candidates have a responsibility
to make their views known to the voters,
there is a greater onus on all voters to take
steps to become acquainted with the can-
didates and find out where they stand on
issues that voters feel are important.
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Canada's newstands are flooded with
foreign magazines, mostly from the-United
States.
Playboy, for instance, collects about as
much money selling its magazine in
Canada as do the 17 largest- English-
language consumer magazines combined,
the Special Senate Committee on Mass
Media reported.
Two U.S. Magazines — Time
"Canada" and Readers's Digest — have
special privileges under the Canadian In-
come Tax, the big break that has enabled
Time and Digest to become so rich and
powerful that the pair now scoop up
between 50 and 60 percent of all Canadian
magazine advertising revenue.
Truly Canadian magazines are squeez-
ed out of advertising, are squeezed off the
newsstands and — with a few exceptions —
pay much higher postal costs than the two
U.S. giants, who received postal subsidies
amounting to $2.9-million in 1971.
'Is this situation of interest only to
advertisers, printers, publishers, writers,
editors, artists and photographers? No.
The Time-Digest issue is every bit as
important as the energy issue. It is through
the pages of journals such as Time
"Canada" that we perceive what the
energy situation is. A false perception will
lead to false action. Time's interests are,
finally, U.S. interests.
The federal cabinet is reported to be
ready to remove the special privileges.
Powerful interests oppose such action.
Whether the cabinet acts will be important
to every Canadian. Canadian magazines
are waiting in the wings to take their right-
ful place in their own country.
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If you don't know what's going
on in this rather complex
muddle, you can take heart in the
realization that even those in the
know don't always comprehend
what's going on either.
Two weeks ago, Ontario Hydro
announced that this province
didn't face any real shortage of
hydro and that while some
curtailment of Christmas lighting
was needed, there was no need to
banish them entirely.
That information was no sooner
made available than other Hydro
officials were noting that due to
problems at some generating
stations, there was a possibility
that some hydro shortages could
be experienced.
Ontario Hydro was forced into
a position of cutting off export
sales of hydro to New York state.
Compounding the problem was
the possibility of coal shortages
due to labor strikes in the USA,
So, even the so-called experts
are really guessing at best.
the wounds of one man, took him
to the inn and paid the bill. Yes,
he did what he could.
Someone has said Christians
are waiting for big crosses to die
on. But we don't need to wait
for big crosses. Jesus told us to
take up our crosses daily. We
need to think small, to do the
things our hands find to'do in the
places where we are, If we
Christians. were willing to do this,
God would take these small acts
and multiply them in such a way
that their impact would be felt all
around this troubled qld world.
Several years ago, a young
woman, Lillian Trasher, arrived
in Egypt to begin a missionary
career, She didn't look around for
something big to do, but was
ready to do anything. One day she
visited a dying mother and found
a dying, sick baby as well. She
did what she could, she took the
baby home with her which
became the start of a work that
touched all of Egypt.
A 'prominent Muslim visited
her Osaiout Orphanage some
years later and left a donation' of
several hundred dollars. When
asked why he, a Muslim, would
make such a contribution to a
Christian institution, he replied,
"We in Egypt have seen what this
woman has done for the
fatherless and the widows. And,"
he added almost in a whisper,
"when this great woman dies,
even though she is a Christian
and even though.she is a woman,
I believe she will go directly to
Paradise."
Lillian `Fresher did not waste
her time dreaming of something
big to do. She began by doing
what she could in a small way
and God took her little gift and
caused it to flourish and in-
crease.
We think of Jesus' act of
feeding 5,000 hungry souls from a
boy's small offering of five loaves
and two fishes as a miracle. If
everyone in our western world
gave the equivalent to the young
lad's gift there would be no more
hunger in the world. Would that
be any less a miracle?
It's amazing how God can take
a small, insignificant act 'of
kindness and turn it into
something big and beautiful.
0yr society is constantly being
propagandized into 'Think Big'.
We urge our young people, "Do
big things. Go faster. Go farther.
Earn more money. Accumulate
more. Dream the impossible
dream,"
Certainly our problems are big.
Problems of poverty, crime,
prejudice, divorce,rebellion . .
all so great we are apt to throw up
our hands in frustration and say,
"That's too big for me to do
anything about ;so I'll just leave it
to someone else."
The trouble is, we've got so
hung up on only doing everything
in a big way that we tend to
overlook the small things we can
do and hence do nothing at all.
As individuals, perhaps it's
time we started to 'think small';
to find where our responsibility is
in this troubled world. And we
need not do it alone for there is a
Higher Power to help us, and we
can always look to Jesus for our
pattern.
Jesus faced most of the
problems we face today. . .human
nature hasn't changed very much
in 2,000 years. He knew first hand
about prejudice, poverty,; op-
pression, crime.. How did he deal
with evil? Usually on a one-to-one
basis: the little man up in the tree
and the confused woman by the
side of a well.
In the story of the good
Samaritan it is likely that the
good priest and Levite were
burdened by the problems of the
day, ..the Roman oppressionand
how to get rid of it, community
relationships, or how to make the
road from Jerusalem to Jericho
more safe from thieves. But they
did nothing about the problem
right before their noses . . . the
battered and perhaps dying man
lying beside the roadside.
Here, again, Jesus emphasized
the helping of one individual. He
showed how one person, the
Samaritan, treated one other
person in need. This Samaritan
did what he could. He bound up
Merry-go-round continues
could have been put to better use
than allowing them to rot in the.
field.
At-s-a gay, trod whirl Our response to now
Inflation and recession are
words we hear repeatedly these
days, but for the average person
on the street they are words
which indicate situations over
which he has little control.
That's particularly true when
both situations appear to be
happening at the same time,
although that too appears in-
congruous.
To beat inflation, we are told to
stop buying. However, when
people take that . advice, a
recession becomes more
probable because declining sales
force people out of work.
The reality of that strikes close
to home when we stop to consider
the fact that an area industry last
week had to lay off 99 people due
to declining sales of their
product. The reason for the
decline in sales was basically
inflated interest rates which in
turn caused a drarstie, deelineAn
housing starts and. therefpre
reduced ,the demand
Windows produced by Dashwood
Industries.
In the case cited, inflation may
have been dealt a bit of a blow,
but for the 99 people at Dashwood
Industries it results in a real
recession.
' That will also be felt to an
extent by many in this com-
munity as the buying power of
those 99 people is reduced,, but it
goes farther as the layoffs here
no doubt will have adverse ef-
fects on companies which supply
materials to the area industry
and will quite conceivably result
in layoffs for their employees as
well.
So the merry-go-round con-
tinues, whether it be an in-
flationary situation or one that
borders more on being a.
recession and we all become a
little more confused about what is
really happening around us.
By ELMOR E BOOMER
Counsellor for
Information South Huron
For appointment
pnone: 235-2115 or 235-2474
Self-awareness 'We finally got the car in the garage—but we had
to make two trips!"
is Nicov Chen, but I tacked
Pokey on him, and it has stuck,
He pokes into everything that is
moving, or still. If it's moving, he
stops it; if it's still, he makes it
move, grinning fiendishly all the
time.
I tell you, it's a gay, mad whirl
around here. Just now I was
interrupted by two pretty girls at
the front door, rakes in hand. I'd'
forgotten about them. They'd
come to rake my leaves. For
money, of course. Couldn't get
any boys.
In the past week I have also
dealt with sixteen students who
are obvious flunkers, one irate
parent, several disgruntled
teachers, and one invitation to
judge a beauty contest.
To top it off, in today's mail
came an election flyer, from Ray
Argyle, who syndicates this
column, announcing his run for
school trustee. He must be out of
his nut.
Everybody seems to be going a
bit mad these days, but I'll lay
odds that I get there before the
rest of you.
"Two bad things happened last night. I forgot to
close the window of the car and you forgot
to put it in the garage! "
Let's see, Where am I? I know I
was going to make a pointed,
telling attack this week on one of
the great evils of our society. But
I can't remember what it was.
Maybe that's because I have
three exams to set, eleventy-four
essays to mark, my bricks are
falling out, along with my fillings,
and my wife, who has just given
me a thrilling account of how she
couldn't get the car started, is
going to the hospital tomorrow.
Ah, well, c'est la vie, as the
Chinese say. You can't have
everything running like clock-
work in a world in which the most
sensible creatures seem to be
cockroaches.
I al's° have forty-four letters to
answer, six vital telephone calls
to make, a speech to write, and a
grandbabby to bring up.
Then there are about seven
thousand pounds of oak leaves to
take and bag. I think I'll send
them to Bangla-Desh, Surely
somebody there knows how to
make oak leaf and acorn soup.
Don't think I'm being hard and
cynical. There's a lot of protein in
those acorns. And I have 28
squirrels, not counting children,
in my attic to prove it.
Maybe you think this is just the
whining of a middleaged man,
who can't cope with life. Well,
you're right.
My bricks are falling out. Or
they are being sucked out, by the
gentle vines of this old Georgian
house, which are about as gentle
as a giant squid. The roofer said,
"Geez, Bill, your bricks are
loose." It sounds sort of obscene,
like, "You have rocks in your
head." But it's not. They're
falling out. (Or being knocked out
by the clumsy roofers and
painters. Sh-h-h-h.)
And my fillings are falling out
as fast as I can, or my dentist
can, put them in. He's a nice guy,
"I'm sorry, Reverend, but
our first estimate runneth over
quite a lot."
and the most painless dentist I
have ever had, for which I will
cling to him until teeth do us
depart, but you can't build pine
trees out of stumps.
And then there's my grand-
babby. You'd think I would not
worry about him when he's a
hundred miles away. But I do.
How do I know those young
sillies in the daycare centre are
teaching him the right things. Do
they know how to ride him on a
jigging foot to the tune of "Did
You Ever Go Into An Irishman's
Shanty, Where Money Is Scarce
and Whiskey Is Plenty?"?
Do they know how to let him
chew their thumb while at the
same time whistling in his belly
and waving his bare foot in the
air to the tune of "Knees Up,
Mother Brown"?
'Well, maybe the young sillies
aren't doing too badly, as long as
there are three of them to one of
him. At least they're not trying to
unteach him the good things he's
learned from his gramps.
Had a call from his mother last
Sunday. She made it from a
phone booth, as Mother Bell has
not smiled on them yet. Asked
her where the baby was. She
responded coolly that he was on
her knee, tearing pages out of the
telephone directory.
He loves tearing up books,
especially those of sacred in-
stitutes, like the Bell. I started
him off with the inane coloured
sections of the Saturday papers.
He seemed to thrive on it, ripping
them apart with gusto, relish,
and any ketchup that happened to
be around.
I thought it wise to move him
up to telephone books, police
reports, politicians' speeches,
beer labels and such examples of
Canadian culture. Turns out he's
a boy after my own heart.
Go to it, Pokey. His real name
Florie is an English girl who
has just taken the empty place
beside the therapist. Others are
circled round them. She speaks
apologetically. "May, I sitidown?"
This after she is seated. Her
words and actions tell different
stories.
She giggles "Oh, sorry about
that." She doesn't look sorry; she
looks delighted.
Florie is asked to repeat her
last sentence. Such repetition and
acting out of feelings encourages
self awareness. Contradictions in
our behaviour, which run deeply
in ourselves, are unearthed and
we see why we do what we do.
Florie repeats "Oh, sorry about
that." Her back is straighter; her
smile /plastered. She is asked to
repeat it to individuals in the
circle. Her giggleibecomes un-
controllable as she speaks again
and turns to a wall. Then she is
angry. She shouts, "I'm sorry
about that. I'm sorry about that,"
The therapist asks her, "To
whom are you talking?" And she
replies with tears, "My mother."
Her mother is an invalid who
lives in an English village. She
had asked her daughter to stay
with her. But Gloria, wanting to
live her own life, had come to
America. Guilt and anger were
very evident in her.
As she speaks, before them, to
her mother Florie ends her
session on the "hot seat" with a
new appreciation for her
mother's desires and a new
understanding of her eagerness
to leave home.
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Another word being heard
more often these days is "ripoff."
There are many indications
that some greedy people are
taking advantage of inflation to
become rich and this is obviously
true of the people involved in the
sugar business..
After all, increased profits of
1200 percent are a bit execessive
in anyone's terminology.
The situation became more
confusing for the writer this week
after talking to Ulrich and Ann
Duttmann, the personable bakers
up in Hensall.
They just returned home last
week after visiting in their native
land of West Germany.
They were most surprised to
find that sugar was selling there
for only 25 cents per pound.
.Ulrich also reported that he
was mystified to find that bakers
in Wester Germany were paying
less for flour than he was in
Hensall. The odd thing is, that the
bakers in his home land were
using flour that was being milled
from Western Canada wheat.
Figure that one out, if you cant
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This small resume of one case
serves to introduce Gestalt
Therapy to the readers of the
current issue of Psychology
Today and, of course, also to us.
Gestalt therapy is the child of.
Fritz Penis who lived in Europe,
South Africa and America.
Gestalt is a German word
meaning whole, the wholeness
made up of different parts.
When Gestalt is used by
therapists it denotes a frame of
experience. Different frames of
experience rise seemingly
spontaneously at times. They
crowd in upon our consciousness,
jostle for our attention, leave a
residue of satisfaction ,if they are
fully dealt with and
'dissatisfaction if pushed to one
side.
At this moment as I write this
article my attention is fully taken
by the ideas and work of putting
them down. Then, in the middle I
remember the other job I am
supposed to do on Tuesday
morning. Should I . leave my
writing and do the other.? It is
only a small task. But in the
process I will lose my train of
thought.
Here are two Gestalts claiming
my attention. If I do not drop my
writing to energetically do the
remembered chore, then I am
using energy to suppress 'the
rising gestalt.
Florie was angry with her
mother. But, of course, a
daughter should not be angy with
her mother, especially/if she is
sick. So she is angry with herself
and feels her guilt. She has
burdened herself and uses
energy, needed for healthy living
in maintaining this burden.
Florie is invited to speak to her
mother, to go back to that frame
of experience, that gestalt in
which she last saw her mother.
"I'm not sorry, I'm not sorry. I
want to lead my own life. I don't
want to live in a small town
taking care of a sick mother, Do
you hear that mother?"
In the expression of her
feelings her burdens are
dissipated. Instead of sup-
pressing or hiding from them 'or
hiding them from her mother,
herself and others she has a new
awareness of herself.
Now she is free to understand
and love her mother,
And she is in touch with herself
with a few less clouds to haze her
horizon,
elected editor of the SHDHS
paper staff, Wednesday.
Friends and neighbours joined
Mr. & Mrs. William Westlake last
Wednesday evening to celebrate
their 20th wedding anniversary.
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Northcott of
Vancouver are visiting relatives
in Exeter and community.
A "minister" convicted
Wednesday of obtaining money
under false pretenses was given
suspended sentence and ordered
to repay two loans of $300 to
Exeter and St. Catharines
residents.
10 Years Ago
Rev. Clinton A. Brittain was re-
elected to his second term as
president of the Grand Bend and
Area Chamber of Commerce at
the annual meeting Monday. ,
Thomas Ellerington Jr., was
awarded the British American
Oil Co. proficiency scholarship of
$50 at the annual banquet of
Western Ontario Agricultural
School at Ridgetown.
Six lucky area shoppers ended
up with $25 each in merchandise
certificates when their tickets
were drawn in the Exeter
Businessmen's Association
"Share ChniStinias" draw this
weekend.
Construction on the Parkhill
Dam will be delayed again as the
Ausable River Conservation
Authority learned this week they
would have to call tenders On the
major project again.
50 Years Ago
William Mitchell, has disposed
of the Metropolitan HoteltoMr.T;
Cameron. Mr. Mitchell hasIbeen
proprietor of the Metropolitan for
the past ten years.
The L.O.L. of Exeter has
elected the following officers for
the coming year, W.M. - H.
Dignan; P.M. - G. Davis; D.M. -
W. Cunningham; Rec, Sec. - G.
McDonald; Financial Sec. - H.
Bowers; Treas. - J. Brintnell;
Chaplain, - Rev. J. Foote; Lect. -
E: M. Dignan; J. Brant,
Committee - J. Luker, W. Lut-
man, H. Powe and C. Walker.
Mr. E. 0. Penhale has disposed
of his fifty-acre farm in Stephen
Township to Mr. Ben Makins, of
the same township.
25 Years Ago
'renders are being called for
the erection of an eighteen
classroom school at the Centralia
airport, where a huge housing
project is now well underway.
According to the latest
assessment Exeter population is
now 2,401,
Contributions to the Exeter
District Hospital Fund have now
reached the half-way mark,
'The Exeter girls softball club,
champions of the southern group
of Western Ontario Amateur
Athletic Association, were
honoured ata civic banquet at the
Central Hotel,Irriday evening.
15 Years Ago
Norma Oeiger, Zurich Was
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If you wish to continue this
rather depressing topic, consider
the fact that the numbers of
people who are starting in this
world continue to increase, while
at the Same time we hear and see
reports of farmers in this auntry
destroying produce and livestock
either because they cannot get
satisfactory prices or they have
over-produced.
A farmer, in Quebec, for in,
stance, was forced to dispose of a
large acreage of carrots only
because they were classed as
second grade, while the canning
company demanded only top
quality products.
Surely there must be some
method whereby those carrots "A04i "A-