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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. More than a media matter MILK, fa, CLOIliltiti 7011MTEP,'13LIT TAEY START h1 f.55114 WITH NECESSITIES, 113 6ONf VIM! 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. + + + 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. rEINSM*7"r1KFA0W me.c4.0,-Kkowetimarg4px. Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 + + + 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 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON exefeRime,sainiocate SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND 0.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor Terri Irvine Phone 235.1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Regittration Number 0386 Paid in Adv6nte Circulation March 31, 1974, 5,309 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $9.00 Per Year; USA $11.00 "70:;.w.,4:17YILITZLTSCIZZRIBEMZIMME'ra=r4.'";;NIES' 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 + + + 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-