The Brussels Post, 1977-11-16, Page 4
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Indian summer
Each year about this time we hear on all sides that
Indian Summer has arrived. Then begin the great
arguments over when, where and why Indian
summer really comes.
Research tells us that Indian summer is a spell of
clear weather often persisting for a week or more,
characteristic of middle and late autumn in central
U.S.A. It occurs in a large stagnating anticyclonic
area; the first day may be cold, but under the clean'
skies with light winds the daytime hours of each
succeeding day become warmer and warmer while
hoar frost, dew or valley fog may occur during each
chilly night.
The weather-map situation of Indian summer is
not so definite as for other weather: it consists of a
moving cool shallow polar air mass into a deep warm
stagnant anti-cyclone with strong temperature
ranges between day and night.
We think more simply of Indian summer as the
name given to a period of mild, pleasant weather
which usually occurs toward the end of autumn. The .
temperature rises fairly high in the day after
extremely cool nights and there is a haze or
smokiness in the air. This haziness of the air, the
musty odor and glorious colouring of the leaves gives
us a relaxing effect from the warmth following the
cold snaps and makes distinctive or romantic
overtones to autumn.
The term Indian summer was first used in western
Pennsylvania at the end of the 18th century. In time
it spread throughout the entire U.S.A. to Canada and
then on to England.
We believe the explanation of the term "Indian"
to this elusive non-scheduled weather treat is that
early settlers must have thought the entire
smokiness was produced by the numerous woods and
grass fires made by the Indians at harvest time.
Theories or no - specific time or no - let's enjoy
Indian summer when our hearts tell us it's here!
(The Shelburne Coast Guard)
Arena plaque biographies
Mr. — Mrs. Wm. Gillespie
Bill Gillespie came from
Seaforth. He married 'Elizabeth
Ritchie. Her origin is unknown at
the present. They lived in the
second last house on William
Street how owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Lyle Brothers, There was no
family . Mr. Gillespie was a
plumber and tinsmith by trade
and was a partner in the hardware
store of Wilton arid Gillespie from
about the turn of the century until
Sam Wiltons death in 1943. He
continued to operate the business
Until selling it tO Max Oldfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie Were
members of the BritsSelS
Presbyterian Church and, are
buried' hi the Brussels Cemetery,
I
A week or.so ago'l heard where many of the
criminal lawyers are quitting their practices
because they feel the legal aid system in
Ontario is unjust to them. One explained that
the lawyers have to work at a fixed rate and
have to give part of their fee as their donation
to the legal aid program. That means, one
lawyer explained, that the lawyer gets only
about $25 per hour on legal aid cases('But of
that fee, he cried, costs such as office
overhead and salaries to secretaries and other
staff meant the lawyer ended up with only
about half of the $25 per hour.
The part that really made me chuckle was
that one of the la wyers quoted in the news
story said he was getting out of criminal law to
write novels. This guy must know something I
don't. The last I heard writers, the vast
majority in this country anyway, weren't
earning anything like the $12.50 per hour that
lawyers are left after expenses. Most of my
friends who are writers are, lucky to get $12.50
a week. ( They write, not for money, but
because they love what they're doing. They do
th"a --ttever they have to to get by financially so
LWIt they can find the time to write. I expect
some of them may have died laughing after
hearing about the problems of our lawyers.
I don't expect medals for the writers of the
country for their dedication to their jobs. What
I think is sad is that they stand out so much
these days because there seems to be so little
dedication in so many other fields of, work. It
isn't just the lawyers, who once seemed to
have a sense of protecting the underdog, but
now seem more worried about looking out for
Number One. There was an article in a
Toronto newspaper recently about a former
Ontario doctor now living in the southern U.S.
who was inviting his friends to "come on
down". He was earning $250,000 a year and
only working until noon each day. Many
doctors have been heeding the call and
heading south because they feel hard used
that under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan
they can't ea rn the huge salaries American
doctors do. They aren't starving, mind you,
but they can't live at the level to which doctors
have betome accustomed.
Many teachers too in recent years have
taken the attitude that sure, quality of
education is important, but the quality of the
pay cheinie comes first. It's an attitude.
reflected in nearly every btiSineSS, trade and
profession in thiS country It's a sickness that
if not cured, will soon drive the nation into the
ground,
• , , People seem to forget '0 easily, that though
things may seem hard„ they're featly a piece
of cake compared to what other countries have
faced or what we've faced ourselves ]n times
past, I heard idiotic'. union" leader the other
day edhipare the Canadian situation` at ptesent
to the crisis in Germany after World War
One. How ridiculous. Our inflation is less than
10 per cent per year. Inflation was so bad in
Germany that they had to take wheelbarrow
loads of paper money to buy a loaf of bread,
The other day on the radio I heard
interviews with 10 people from across the
countryasking how they would- compare their
standard of living today with that before wage
and price controls were installed. Only one
was honest enough to say that his standard of
living today was as good or better than two
years ago. The others seemed to forget that
two years ago we faced 12 per cent inflation,
and that while inflation is not as low as the
government hoped, it's still a long way below
12 per cent. In the same period average wage
settlements have exceeded the inflation rate
by a healthy margin. Some people no doubt
are worse off, but nine out of 10?. Whether
you're for or against the controls, let's be
honest enough to admit they haven't hurt the
average Canadian.,
If people can't even honestly remember two
years ago, how are we supposed to make them
remember what things were like in really bad
times, like the Depression or the war years.
We've just passed Remembrance Day and I
wonder how many people, even those who
lived through the horror of the war really
remembered. I've heard people liken the
present economic situation to the Depression
y ears. I wasn't' around then, but somehow I
can't believe that we're any where close to the
hardships that millions faced in those years.
The thing is that hard as the Depression and
the War Years were, they taught Canadians to
be grateful for what they had. We were a
hungry nation then, worried about the very
basics of life: food, clothing a place to live,
and for the men at war, even survival itself.
Today we've come so far from those basic
needs that we've become lost in a fog of
prosperity, lost to the point we don't even
know how fortunate we are. We see pictures
every day of some of the Millions of people in
the world that live without the very basics of
life but somehow we manage to shut those
pictures off from our own reality. It, seems that
without experiencing hunger, cold, and sheer
desperation to keep on living; for ourselves,
we can't realize that instead of grumbling
about otir petty troubles, we should rejoice in
our wealth, Counting your blessings in
Canada has become as passe as' stovepipe ,
hats,
Must we face another bleak depression,
another war to\pull Canadians away front their
present path of greed? it seenis a horrible
dire but unless we can pull ourselves out of
bile present seif..centred attitude,• I don't see
Muth else saVink us.
Mr.& MrsJohn George Turnbull
George Turnbull was born in
1872 on the farm which his
parents James and Agnes
Turnbull took from the crown in
1865. This farm, Lot 5, con, 4,
Grey Twp, remained in the
Turnbull name for over 100 years.
Mr. Greit \tap Keulen now lives
on the frnri, •
in 1900 Geo. married
Jane Kernaghan of Morris Twp,
and in 1906 moved to Lot 10, Con.
5, of Grey. They had One Son who
now resides on that farni. They
Were members of the Brussels
United Church and are buried in
the Brussels, Cemetery:•
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
Times are tough all over