The Brussels Post, 1981-03-25, Page 2IRON BR1DC,E
BRUSSEL.
Remember when?
The Brussels Post had
some interesting old pic-
ture postcards brought in
recently by Cal Krauter,
One of the picture post-
cards.is of the laying of the
cornerstone of the Melville
Presbyterian Church, in.
Brussels in 1914: Another
is of the old bridge that
used to be across the
Maitland Rver in Brussels.
The third is a picture of
Turnborry street, back in
the horse and carriage
days, postmarked 1907.
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BRUSSELS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981
The voters do care
The election is over--the battle done, and William Davis won the
majority victory for which he campaigned so hard.
In Huron-Bruce, it was a surprisingly tight race between two new
candidates for the position left vacant by the resignation of Murray
Gaunt. Liberal Murray Elston won the vote though and should be
congratulated for his victory. We're sure Mr. Elston will try to serve the
people in the best way he knows, as did his predecessor.
Although Progressive Conservative Gary Harron lost, he too should be
proud of what he's done, considering the close election. His hard
campaigning efforts obviously paid off.
Tony McQuail representing the NDP also tried his best, but alas, he
belongs to a party which isn't likely ever to come into power in the
Huron-Bruce riding.
Although it seethed apathy hung over the province in regard to this
election, you would•never have known it in Huron-Bruce on Thursday
night judging by the ,cliff-hanging suspense with Elston ahead one
moment and Harron the next.
Congratulations tool° the Huron-Bruce voters who showed they really
do care about what goes on in an election.
Marking examination papers brings out
the best and the worst in a teacher. Any
tomfool can set an examination. Any other
idiot can write the thing. But marking the
finished, or more often unfinished product
is something else.
In some ways, marking exams is the
absolute anus of the sometimes creative
body of teaching. It is to the teacher what
an over-flowed toilet is to the plumber.
Normally, a plumber's life is a fairly
happy one, Whanging away at pipes.
Cursing gaily as he tries to unscrew a
rusted nut. Dropping a dirty great wrench
on •the customer's new tile floor. And
writing out a whacking great bill at $14 an
hour, plus parts which' must be made of
24-carat gold. On the whole, a satisfactory,
fulfilling life. A plumber is usually a
smiling, afable chap, much like the
highwaymen of olden times, who grinned
gallantly as they stripped the passengers of
the stage of their valuables.
It's the same with teachers. You seldom
see a teacher who is not similing, except
between the first of September and the end
of June.
They too have their little joys in everday
life: bullying kids; cursing the principal,
,Please turn to page 3
Whatever happened to exciting elections?
It's exam marking time
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley -
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
Interest in the provincial
election last week seemed to
reach an all time low. Is it
any wonder?
1 mean not only was it
recognized from the beginn-
ing that the odds were better
that Bill Davis would be
premier when it was all over
than that the Toronto Argon-
auts wouldn't win the Grey
Cup this year, but everything
else about elections was
pretty predictable. Elections
used to be exciting, exhilar-
ating times in the lice of the
country. Now they're about
as interesting as watching
the traffic lights change (in
tact, with the drivers on the
roads these days, traffic
has the edge.)
'NoW I wouldn't exactly like
to go back to the really
exciting days. The early
Elections in Huron County,
back in the days of Tiger
Dunlop and Col. Van Eg-
mond, were times when you public imetiugs could sway
might get your head split the vote. It was also a day
open trying to get into the when there were at least two
election poll to cast your newspapers in virtually every
vote. Those were times when community, one always on
votes were bought with the Grit side, and one on the
drinks, or frightened off by Tory side. The natrie-calling
gangs that roamed the ,.. tnat went on in the pages of streets with clubs. That kind those papers Would make
of excitement I could do premier Lotignced and Prime
without. Minister Trudeau blush.
Elections of a slightly later I don't exactly wish to
era, the late 1800's and early return to those days either.
1900's were More' peaceable They weft ,the days when a
and eXeiting in their own change in parties in govern-and
It was the day before merit could mean wholesale
the mass Media, When the change in who held what jobs
oratory of candidates at in the conlmunity. You might
debated their gut feelings The election just past, for
about who would win. There instance, was called because
was an art on the part of the Conservatives have a
people involved with the , sophisticated polling system
parties in having an ear to that told party planners that
the ground, for judging from now was the time for an
the people you met how the election, that the mood was
whole populace would react. right. There used to be an
Some had a better instinct . art in that kind of judgement
than othersfor this, but even but today it's a science.
for the best there was the air Experts know that if you take
of uncertainty.
Today there's about as
much uncertainty n an elec- a specified number of people
tion as there is in t
o Mebon- from specified pre-selected
aid's
hamburger. Everything areas and interpret the re-
is computed and analysed to
"suits of the poll according to
point where you have the establish voting
have saved all the money [fi f how the vote Will go:
Yot.11
years you can predict within
a few percentage points just
patterns
feeling they might as well
the
over the past number of
'tent..
cthoem campaignouters e
elect
andtfie
govern=
l et th e may k eep hoping that the
"experts'' Will be Wrong lust
,._. Please litirn to page 3
suddenly have a new post
master. Vote the`wrong way
and you might not have the
bridge you have been prom-
ised for so long. Thankfully
most of the patronage has
gone out of politics in
Canada.
BITTERLY FOUGHT
Election excitement I re-
call Was the excitement of my
growing-up years when There
were issues that Were bitterly
foUght Over during the elee-
tion campaign: There Was a
feeling of suspense wheri the
pollS closed the people
awaited the feSpcinse, People