The Brussels Post, 1976-04-07, Page 2'Wm'ft Brussels Post.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1976 oNTA R
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each. Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
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. Still a way to go
For all those starry-eyed.souls who say of women --
"you've come a long way baby;" here are the facts.
Montreal economist Dian Cohen finds from the
Women's Bureau that, women workers are slipping —
in the amount of pay they take home, as compared
with men.
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,Although more women than ever are in the labor
force, one out of every three women are , bearing
more of the over-all burden of unemployment than in
the past. In the clerical field where more than a
million women work, men earn 57 per cent more than
women, averaging $7,769 yearly to a woman's
$4,962. The salary difference for men here is
•INCREASING. In the service sector men made 157
per cent more than women ,in 1972. Back in 1967
men service workers earned pnly-121 per cent. more
than women. Again.the gap is INCREASING in favor
of men:
In the sales field things are going from rotten to
worse. In 1967 salesmenlaveraged $6,096 -- women
$2,292. .Six years later in 1972 salesmen were up to
$9,567 while sales women made a whopping $3,771.
But the gap is narrowing in favor of .women in the
professions. In 1967 male professionals earned 87
per pent more than women. By 1972 they earned only
72 per cent more than women professionals.
In the clerical field where 97 per cent of all
secretaries and stenographers are women -- male
secretaries earn between $2;300 and $12,000 more
than women.'
Even babysitting is not sacred. The, average
60-year-old male full-time sitter made $5,536 yearly
-- compared to the woman sitter's $2,099!
When men are .outstripping women at such
traditional work as looking after the baby all that can
be said for the women of Canada is "you've slipped a
long way baby." (Unchurched editorials)
Just walk
Medical experts advise that there's a noticeablO'
weakening in the leg muscles of today's average
Canadian. It's a malady that is showing up more and
more among our young people, and that obviously
makes it something that will continue to,worsen.
With that advice, there iS perhaps more reason to
support a suggestion by the Huron County board of
Education that bus service be cut back for students,
While that move was contemplated strictly for
economical reasons, the medical reasons may be
equally as important.
This is not to suggest students shOuld be expected
to walk five miles to school or the nearest bus, but
the board is adVocating that routes be cut only as
long as elementary students have a walk of less than
half a mile and secondary students up to/ one mile.
Naturally, many would still be picked up,at their
gates, but in the long rUn, those may be the less
fortunate if in fact a Walk-oah improve health as much
as softie experts suggeSt. kExeter Independent)
To the editor
Mil Stars enjoyed tournament
121 JaineS Street,
Wingham, Ont. Dear t &tor:,
Oh behalf of the Winglitint Atoni All Stars, I would like to take
this opportunity to tell you what a success we thought y our
totirnarnent was.
A geed tithe was had by all and I hope in intuit years that We
May participate again. Thanks again..
tours sincerely,
Owen Curtis
If there's one thing our house needs; it's
another piece of furniture. The way things
stand now, you haye to weave Yourself in and
out among the furniture. It's an every day
affair; to stumble over a footstool or hit your
ankle on a chair leg. In our house you have to
learn to twist your body past the arm chair and
lean to the left to avoid missing the 'coffee
table. •
So the last thing our placed needed was a
cradle. Yes, I said a cradle. One of those old
fashioned wooden cradles with rockers. A
rocking cradle with four.high end posts -- the
kind that makes every maternal instinct come
forth. It's the kind that makes you want to
grab one of those handle posts and ses the
whole piece to rocking.
_ We've already got one wooden cradle in our
house. But we work on the assumption if one
is good,, then two is better and three is
absolutely superlative,
The cradle is sitting in our front hallway.
It's been there for two weeks now. The truth is
we don't have retire to put it anyplace else,
So there it sits—dirty as ever. The varnish
cracked and alligatored. Some of the glue is
dried out and the seams sag. A rag is still
wrapped around one of the bottom broken
spindles.
I'm sure the cradle's wondering what on
earth we're going 'to do with it. How we're
going to end up its old age.
It's put in years of service. It's been in one
family for over fifty years. It's cradled eleven
of their babieS. But the last few years it's been
in a barn. And before that, in an attic.
ViTheever would have thought value was
rising with every nick put in it, And every spot
worn to the bare wood. That's called antiquing
- the slow way,
But if the cradle's Wondering what's going
to become of it, so are lots of people who come
to our door.
"You're expecting!" someone shouts and
Now. Karl has a cradle
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
Splash!
he grabs my hand to shake it and congratulate
me:
"Expecting? Sure ' we're expecting
nothing," says my wife. Then she
mumbles something about Sarah.
People are supposed fo catch on that she's
"past the age of women" as the Bible so
delicately puts it.
It's true. There's no latter-day Isaac in our
family plans.
But then there's some other people that
aren't so kind.
"Gone off your rocker, eh , KarlY"
Or a young man full of vigor pats the cradle
and says, 'I didn't think you had it left in you,
Karl".
I straighten up to defend my honour. Ready
to fight. But he backs off. 'I was only
kidding."
I try to explain. We need another cradle to
rock all of our newspapers and magazines to
sleep. But no one believes me.
"I bet there's a wedding coming up in the
family ," someone hints. Or another person
just hums lullaby and goodnight. _
That cradle made another than show me
how his granny rocked her Cradle. She'd sit
down in a chair at one end of the cradle and
put her feet on its rocker. And while her foot
rocked the cradle, her hands were free to gaw
And that's something a rocking chair wouldn't
let her do; rockaby baby and knit a pair of
socks at the same time.
You can see this old cradle is the best
conVersatiorolede in the hOttte. I don't think
I it move it front front hall centre. It sure beats
talking ahOttt the Weather. That'S what we
usually settle for in those first few" minutes' of
hallway conversation When people Conte ifi.
And not only that, waiting for sortieone
to' come up with a reason — all I need is one
reason — a very good reason 'why We bought
that cradle in the first pike.
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