The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-08-25, Page 4Among the events of the Queen's silver
jubilee year, the Aug. 10, 11 visit to
Northern Ireland will go down as perhaps
the most significant of all the Queen's
many special activities.
It was a singularly courageous act for
the 51-year-old monarch. Even given the
tremendous protection of "Operation
Monarch" which involved more than 32,300
troops and police, the Irish visit
represented a very real hazard for the
Queen. As governments throughout the
world know only too well, it only takes a
single bullet to snuff out a life and it is vir-
tually impossible to protect anyone against
the attack of a dedicated sniper.
And yet, the visit to Northern Ireland
was a must for the Queen. To have not
made it would have been almost certainly
interpreted as a backing-down on the part
of the British government and as a victory
of sorts for the outlawed Irish Republican
Army. As it turned out, the affection shown
the Queen by her loyal Irish supporters and
the containment of the IRA violence was a
slap-in-the-face to the radicals. The unfor-
tunate fact is that those same rebels will
now spend the rest of the summer trying to
make up for what can only be described as
a public defeat.
In this regard, the timing of the
Queen's visit is a matter for consideration.
Why was it scheduled to fall between two of
the most inflammatory dates on the
Northern Ireland calendar?
Aug. 9 marked the sixth anniversary of
the now-rescinded policy of internment of
suspected IRA guerrillas without trial, an
act that led to some of the worst fighting,
while Aug. 12 is the celebration of the 1689
defeat of King James Irs Catholic army in
Northern Ireland.
There can be no doubt but what the
Queen's advisers deliberately timed her
visit to coincide with these contentious
happenings. One "cannot help but wonder
why. Would not a visit at another time have
proven the point of British involvement and
concern equally well? And will subsequent
bloodshed, provoked to a point by this add-
ed show of might by the British, be worth
it?
Only time will tell. But regardless of
the outcome, the courage of Queen
Elizabeth in undertaking the visit and
carrying it off with her usual dignity will
remain a shining example for those in
Northern Ireland of what can be ac-
complished under the most trying of times.
Whose responsibility?
Employers are being asked by the
Unemployment Insurance Commission to
report untidy job seekers who do not
appear to be serious about finding work.
"They're encouraging a fink mentality.
They want people to be stoolpigeons and
fink on each other," said one leader of a un-
ion.
"It's just another gimmick they have
come up with to disqualify people,"
declared another.
We're convinced the large majority of
those who are unemployed are not at all
happy about it and would willingly accept
reasonable employment. But we're also
convinced there are a few who like the idea
of receiving unemployment insurance
rather than working.
Because the few damage the reputation
of so many honest job seekers, it doesn't
seem unreasonable at all to seek out the
few. No one wants to be a fink or a tattle
tale or a stoolpigeon but those who work
regularly to contribute to the unemploy-
ment insurance fund should have some
rights in reducing the number of fakers
who benefit unfairly.
We can continue to pass the blame for
unemployment to someone else and
achieve nothing, or we can all recognize
that no problem is defeated without co-
operative effort and get to work on it. It's
the same with detecting those who take ad-
vantage of a system designed to protect us
all, We can say it's the government's job to
catch the culprits or we can all be involved
in the task.
We dislike the mentality that looks to
government to do everything — solve the
inflation problem, solve the unemployment
crisis, solve the difficulty of regional dis-
parities, solve the unity crisis — the list is
endless. But the country was not built by
those who depended on government to do
things for them. Individual responsibility
needs to gain some new status and when it
does we might find our problems have
diminished considerably.
Maybe it's time individuals were tattle
tales on those who abuse a system designed
to protect a great many. Maybe then more
would have some respect for the rights of
others.
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A Queen with courage
Being modern isn't everything
Golf is a silly game
A great many people look down
their noses at the game of golf .
Scornfully they ask: "How can
an adult with a mind walk around
a few acres of manicured
pasture hitting a tittle white ball
with a long stock?"
And I am inclined to agree
with them. It's a silly game and
at least once a week I determine
that I'm going to quit. But it's
just about as easy to quit golf as
it is to quit smoking.
It's a game that reduces strong
men to tears of impotent rage
and turns honest women into
cheats who move their ball from
a bad lie when nobody is looking.
Even the parlance of the game
is ridiculous, combining terms
from the butcher shop (hook,
slice, shank) with those from an
aviary (birdie, eagle) and those
from a horror movie (bogey,
scull).
It's an expensive game.
Membership in a club can run
from $300 a year to $5,000 or
more. Even the basic equipment
can easily run to $500 for clubs,
cart, bag, shoes.
Those who don't belong to a
club can pay as you go, eight or
10 dollars a round, and add to
that three $2 balls lost in the bush
and a couple of drinks in the club
house and you're getting up
around $20 for four hours of
muttering at a little ball, pur-
suing a little ball, and oc-
casionally hitting that little ball
so sweetly that nothing can quite
compare with the feeling, and
you are hooked all over again on
this silliest of sports.
Come to think of it, golf isn't a
sport, any more than chess is,
It's more like a way of life. And
there are a lot worse ways of
life. For a teenager, once bitten
by the bug, it's like a disease.
But a kid who has played 27 or 36
holes of golf on a Saturday is not
very likely to be out smashing
windows in the local 'school on
Saturday night. He's too pooped,
For the old-timer who plays
nine holes every day with his
foursome of cronies, it's a lot
better life than sitting around the
Legion Hall or the beverage
room grousing about the govern-
ment. He still has a challenge.
He knows perfectly well that one
of these days, if the wind is right,
his arthritis isn't acting up, and
the dam' club will connect with
the dam' ball often enough, he
can bring his score down equal to
his age.
An 80-year-old can still play
golf and enjoy it, but you don't
see too many of them surf-
boarding or parachute jumping.
Of course, it's an evil game.
I've heard it rumored that there
is sometimes betting involved,
especially among the older guys,
sometimes staggering wagers of
as much as a nickel a hole.
And then, of course, it's a
dangerous game, physically,
emotionally and psychologically.
You can be thumped on the head
by a golf ball traveling about 300
miles an hour.
You can be struck by lightning
• right at the top of your backsw-
ing, if it's storming. Some
golfers have gone into sand traps
and never been seen again. ,
Emotionally, it can turn a
calm college professor, the
epitome of reason, into a raging
maniac who is capable of throw-
ing all his clubs into a water
hazard and stalking from the
course, purple-eared. I have seen
one of the sweetest-natured
chaps I've ever known, after hit-
ting the ball three yards three
times in a row, put his foot in the
middle of a perfectly good four
wood, bend it double, and hurl
the crippled club deep into the
nearest woods. I have heard a
poised young matron, a regular
churchgoer, using language on
the golf course that would curdle
the blood of a drunken Danish
seaman.
And if the game doesn't sear
you physically and/or emotional-
ly, it will probably destroy you
psychologically,
There are 40 people watching
as you take your three practice
swings, each one a marvel of
symmetry, a machine that is
grooved and oiled.
You step up to the ball and hit
it 60 yards straight up and 20 feet
ahead of you. Or right over the
fence on to the road. Or straight
into the woods. While the gallery
snickers discreetly and you
desperately try to grin non-
chalantly.
It can get worse. Your wife,
whom you can outdrive by 60
yards, steps up and hits a beauty
right down the middle, and then
gives you one of those looks.
Marriages may be made in
heaven, but they can become un-
made on a golf course.
Golfers do have a couple of
things going for them. For one
thing, they're extremely
generous. They'll tell you,
without charge, what is wrong
with your backswing, your
downswing, your stance, your
grip and the kind of balls you are
using.
For another, they're tough.
They wouldn't think of walking to
church in the rain, but they'll
play 18 holes in a torrent. On sul-
try summer days when people
are dropping with heat stroke,
and on cold fall days when people
are huddled by the fireplace, the
golfers are out there, hacking
and hewing around the course.
Well, there you are. The game
is silly, expensive, evil, and
dangerous. Golfers run the risk
of being scarred for life In one or
more ways and should be locked
up for their own safety. I'm
definitely going to quit.
And yet . . And yet . . The
other day I had three good
drives. Tuesday my putting was
improving. Wednesday I'd have
had a birdie if I hadn't hit the
tree. Yesterday I was chipping
well.
I think maybe I'll give her one
more go. It's all got to come
together one day. Surely.
While most planners would ad-
vise that merchant groups have
to be modern in their approach to
attract customers, at least one
community in Ontario has
proven that it is not necessarily
so,
That community is Niagara-
On-The-Lake and a jaunt along
its main thoroughfare is akin to a
step back into time.
Most of the local store owners
have joined together to give the
town an old fashioned
appearance, and judging from
the crowds milling about during
our recent visit there, they have
been most successful in making
the town a popular tourist attrac-
tion.
There are no flashing neon
signs or fancy window dressings.
Simple hand-painted signs have
been used to designate each
business and many still use some
of the old store fixtures and
equipment that most Ontario
merchants tossed out years ago.
One of the added benefits of
the appearance is that, it
generates a warm, friendly feel-
ing and shoppers and merchants
alike appear to be going at about
half the normal pace of today's
modern business world.
The theme is not one that
would work in every community
of course, but it does prove that
when merchants get together
and cooperate on a particular
theme it can have tremendous
benefits for them all.
The real advantage is that it
not only becomes an attractive
and popular shopping centre for
local residents, it also is a pop-
ular tourist attraction.
Small wonder that most of the
merchants in Niagara appear to
have a wider smile than many of
their confreres throughout the
province. No doubt the simplici-
ty of their project made it com-
paratively cheap, as well.
A jaunt through that particular
region of Ontario is probably one
of the most interesting to be
found as it is steeped in natural
beauty and historical
significance.
The Niagara Parkway is a
blaze of color amid well coif-
fured lawns and fruit groves.
It is probably. that refreshing
appearance that tempts many
visitors to jump out of their
vehicles and test their legs
against the 235 steps of the
General Brock memorial at
Queenston Heights.
Those who are able to over-
come their leg cramps at the top
are rewarded with a majestic
view of the countryside that
makes the climb well worth the
effort.
It's probably one of the few at-
tractions left in this province
that is free, although most peo-
ple would probably question their
sanity for paying for such a
climb.
The other popular attraction is
Fort George, a reconstruction of
one of the nation's earliest army
posts. Students in period un-
iforms go about the many chores
that were required in the opera-
tion of this fort and it is a most
educational adventure for people
of all ages.
It is an interesting history
lesson from the pages of 1812 and
no doubt most visitors come
away with more knowledge of
that memorable portion of the
nation's history than they can in
the countless hours spent in
classroom lessons.
Perhaps it was just a figment
of our imagination, but most of
the visitors to Fort George
appear to be Canadian citizens,
despite the thousands of
Increases
allowable
only once
Tenants and landlords should
be aware that only one rent in-
crease is permitted in any 12-
month period, consumer and
commercial relations minister
Sidney Handleman said recently
in a statement aimed at clearing
up any confusion that still exists
over changes in rent review
legislation.
Even if the rent increase is
under the eight percent guideline,
it must stay in effect for a year,
the minister said,
"Landlords wishing to increase
rents by more than eight percent
must continue to apply to rent
review for permission do do so,"
Mr. Handleman said. "This
figure will remain in effect until
October 14, 1977."
Written reasons justifying a
rent increase must accompany
the 90-day notice of increase
which the landlord must give
under The Landlord and Tenant
Act.
A tenant or landlord now has 21
days, instead of 15, in which to
file an appeal against a rent
review officer's decision. The
other party to the appeal must be
notified within seven days after
the notice has been filed.
The minister 'urged landlords
or tenants who have questions
about their rights and protections
under the Act to contact the
nearest regional rent review
office.
(Anybody can have a second
house, a second car, a second
T.V. All it takes is a second job, a
second mortgage and a second
wind.)
Americans who pour into the
region each year.
Could it be that they would just
as soon not be reminded that
they did lose that war?
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It's not often that a poor per-
formance can be termed in-
teresting, but that was certainly
the situation with our visit to the
famous Marineland show last
week.
The show had been running
smoothly with the mind boggling
acts of the trained lions, tigers,
bears, elephants, seals and
dolphins, but the finale with the
killer whales was something
else.
At the particular show we
witnessed, the two whales simp-
ly refused to go through their
normal routines. As you may ex-
pect, there's little anyone can do
to change their minds when they
have them made up.
The trainers pleaded and
prodded, but Kandu and his
cohort simply wouldn't do.
It may have spoiled the show
for some, but because we had the
pleasure of seeing it previously,
it was interesting to know that
man still does not have complete
control of all members of the
nature kingdom.
We enjoyed a picnic lunch
following the show and stayed
around to watch from the
sidelines the next time the
whales were asked to perform.
They went through about one-
quarter of their act and again
decided that was enough. Their
decision was final.
However, we also found that
some humans don't give
everything they're supposed to
on occasions.
We pulled into a motel
boasting of a sauna, phones and
color TV. On investigation we
found that the room we booked
did indeed have a TV, but it
didn't work. The phones were ap-
parently located in the office,
because there was none in our
room.
The sauna? Oh, it was there
alright. But it cost an extra $3
per head to sit and steam.
It was also interesting to note
that most establishments were
taking American money at par,
which no doubt made many U.S,
visitors a little upset as well.
Niagara Falls may well be one
of the seven natural wonders of
the world, but it's doubtful If
Mother Nature expected so
many people to make such a good
living off It with questionable
tactics.
Amalgamated 1924 '
55 Years Ago
by JIM SMITH
Someday, somehow, the
technicians of this world will
devise a marvellous machine
which will be so important
that the rest of the world will
be utterly unable to function
without that machine.
The machine will be so ef-
ficiently designed that it will
require only one human op-
erator. Moreover, the opera-
tor will require absolutely no
skills; any one of the billions
of humans will be able to
master the machine within
a matter of seconds.
Then the politicians will
get into the act, granting the
operator the right to strike.
The unions will insist on —
and get — exclusive opera-
ting rights for that one indi-
vidual. So, if the operator
isn't happy with his work-
ing conditions, the entire
world will grind to a halt.
Crazy? Of course. Impos-
sible?Not at all; in fact, some-
thing similar has happened
to our public services in the
past decade. The air traffic
controllers grounded the en-
tire country — including hun-
dreds of thousands of travel-
lers and fantastic amounts of
business mail. Even that is of
little importance compared
to what the inside postal
workers are planning for
Christmas.
There's incipient idiocy in
our labour laws. Any block
of workers, given responsi-
bility for a function with
enough economic or safety
importance, can cripple the
nation. In return for sacrifi-
cing a couple of weeks' pay,
dition to Zurich Public School
was also used for the first time
this week.
Mary Lou McCoy, 17 year-old
Exeter hairdresser became the
second Ontario Bean Queen
Monday when she was selected
from among eight contestants in
The beauty contest at Hensall
Monday. Runners-up for the title
were Marian Desjardine, Grand
Bend and Margaret Moir,
Hensall.
Hensall Legion's baseball team
won the Huron County Minor
Baseball Trophy in a tournament
held during the Ontario Bean
Festival in Hensall. They
defeated Exeter 12-1.
Bob McBride, 8 son of Mr. &
Mrs. Clare McBride, of the
Goshen Line, is recuperating in
War Memorial Children's
Hospital, London, from a badly
crushed left ankle he suffered
when he caught his foot between
the axle and wheel of the tractor
his father was driving.
15 Years Ago
Local children are taking
advantage of the hot late-August
weather to swim as much as they
can before going back to school.)
Wednesday, nearly 100 who have
been taking swimming lessons
during the year received badges
and awards for passing various
Red Cross tests.
For the first time, a rotary
system will be established for
grades seven and eight at the
J.A.D. McCurdy school, Huron
Park. For some of ,their subjects,
they will move from classroom to
classroom, as is the practice at
high school,
Labour Day, T-A publisher
J.M. Southcott marks his 60th
anniversary in the newspaper
business in Exeter, He started in
1902 with the paper when he was
15, and was a carrier boy several
years before that.
Sandra Snider, Exeter, has won
a UWO Board of Governors
School scholarship valued at $200.
She qualified as the top ranking
student in the graduating class of
SHDHS.
the postal workers can bring
the economy to its knees.
This isn't to say that the
workers' case is unjustified.
However, there are options
for seeing justice done — op-
tions which do not cost the
workers lost wages or the
economy lost opportunities.
The most popular of the al-
ternative suggestions has long
been some form of arbitra-
tion with settlements related
to private sector wage hikes.
For several years, the Ca-
nadian Federation of In-
dependent Business, armed
with a poll showing support
by more than 90 per cent of
its membership, has been
urging the government to
outlaw strikes in essential
public services. The Federa-
tion believes that some form
of arbitration is far more •
practical for all concerned.
There is, in fact,justification
for the belief that much of
our labour strife exists be-
cause there is an institutional
basis — the excessive power
it
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ex ist .
e sector unions — for
Unfortunately, the federal
government has failed to re-
cognize the common sense of
eliminating essential service
strikes. Labour Minister John
Munro is on record as oppo-
sing removal of strike rights:
The government may be in
tune with the labour move-
ment — but it doesn't appre-
ciate the feelings of the vast
majority of Canadians who
are innocent victims in any
disputes.
Surely the government has
better things to do than to
officially sanction Canada's
• economic suicide.
Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881
The Exeter Junior softball
team are winners of their group
in the NWBA. They defeated
Lucan Friday night,
Miss Flear, of Blyth has
returned to town and resumed
her position as milliner with Miss
Armstrong. Miss Cowan, Atwood
has resumed her position as
milliner with Miss Yelland,
Miss McDonald, who recently
sold her millinery business in
town to Miss A, Yelland has
purchased a similar business in
Clinton.
Miss Emalie Hogarth and
Gladys Harvey succeeded in
passing their summer course.
examinations in agriculture at
the OAC, Guelph.
Mr. Wm. Waal has disposed of
his property on Huron Street
consisting of house and ten acres
of land to Mr. Jas. A. VanCamp,
London.
30 Years Ago
Mr. & Mrs. J.S. Fulcher
Brandon, Manitoba arrived last
week to take up residence in
Exeter.
Exeter High School re-opened
Tuesday with an enrolment of 270
Fire destroyed the Ritz Hotel at
Bayfield Saturday night.
Mr. Lou Bailey of town is at
present in Saskatchewan
assisting with the harvest.
Miss Helen Walper, new
teacher for the Primary room of
the Exeter Public School, now
meeting in the basement of the
Public Library, has 39 new pupils
ehrolled.
All places of entertainment at
Grand Bend report a successful
season.
20 Years Ago
The new $112,000 Hensall
Public School was unofficially
christened Tuesday when 181
students moved into the modern
building which was completed
this summer. A two-room ad-