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Good old Canac,a
Just abouteverything that can be said or
written on the subject of Team Canada has
already been shouted or typed. lever in the
history of hockey have there been so many
experts --most of whom never played any-
thing more demanding -than back yard
shinny.
However, that narrow -squeak series
against the Russians has really done things
for Canada and Canadians.
For 20 years we have been bombarded
with propaganda about Canadianism. Radio,
television, newspapers, magazines, after-
dinner speakers—from every side We have
been prodded and preached to: "You're a
Canadian. Why aren't you proud of your
country?" You live in the finest country on
the face of the earth. Stick out your chest and
let the rest of the world know that we belong
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to a special breed of men and women." "Buy
Canadian' ---don't sell your birthright."
We required a lot of convincing. We
somehow failed to warm up to, the idea that
we were really that good.
Team Canada " showed the way. Three
cliff -hanging hockey games in Moscow final-
ly brought us up out of our••armchairs as 'a
united nation. French-Canadian. . . Anglo -
Canadian... what's the difference.? Every
one of us has suddenly become Canadian.
And of course in this part of the world
where we are practically next-door neigh-
bors to Paul Henderson of Lucknow, we are
exceptionally proud Canadians.
It certainly was'a breath -taking series.
As someone said after the last game was
over, "The Stanley Cup playoffs are going to
look pretty tame after this."
Safe till October 30
Mr. Trudeau had some harsh words for a
Vancouver man last week. Answering phone
calls on a "hot line" program, he heard from
a fellow who was really4iving it up.
Just back from a trip to San Francisco,
the unknown caller said he gets $85 a week in
unemployment insurance and his wife earns
$500 a month at her job. The couple have ar-
ranged to spend Christmas in Hawaii.
The PM's response was, as usual, vola-
tile. It didn't really cost him any votes to de-
scribe what was going to happen to the man
in question—since nobody—including our
revered leader—knew the identity of the
caller. Mr. Trudeau said he would see to it
that the freeloader would get no more unem-
ployment
gnem_ployment insurance and that if he did„go to
Hawaii for Christmas he would go as "a
,bum".
Unjustifiecj risk
A couple of weeks ago the police cruiser
in a nearby town was wrecked. It seems one
of the constables spotted a car in town`
travelling at • super speeds •and he'set out in
pursuit.
The chase led him out in the country and
the pace was fast—so fast, in fact, that the
policeman lost control of the vehicle and it
came to rest as a total°•write-off. Fortunately
the policeman was nether killed nor too
seriously injured.
• A few hours later a man was arrested in,
the town:afld=chargred'as the'tfr'iver-of the' of-
fending vehicle.
---- One wonders why the policeman was not
`charged at the same time for the same rea-
son. Obviously he' was travelling at speeds
which were not only in ,excess of the legal
Fact of the matter is that even the prime
minister has no power to end this sort of
thievery. Like thousands of other Canadians
the man was probably well within his legal
rights.
It is time to take a very hard look at a
welfare system which permits a p ' to
live by the labor of his fellow -citizens whi e
his wife is bringing home a• salary that is
quite adequate for both of them. It would be
interesting to know how many thousand
wives are drawing unemployment insurance
benefits while their husbands are making
good wages.
The present discrepancy between the
number of people drawing insurance money
and the number of jobs available is a na-
tional disgrace. It is not merely an election
issue. It is THE election issue.
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limit, but also posing a dangerous risk for
himself, the driver of the car he was follow-
ing and the general public. His cruiser might
have struck another car and killed four or
five innocent people.
Since the policeman had obviously
recognized the driver and had certainly had
an opportunity to get a description of thenar
and perhaps the license number, what was
the point in persisting in a high-speed chase
that entailed' such risk? The driver he was
following no doubt achieved speeds far in ex-
cess of the rates ,he would have .travelled
without a cruiser on his tall.
We do not suggest that policemen should
overlook such offenses, but it does seem very
clear that picking up the driver later would
be preferable to the hazards created by
chasing the offender
Mostly because of meat
We've had government studies on every-
thing from the plight of the baby seal to the
reading habits of new Canadians—on every-
thing, that is; except the one thing that has
every person in this country jumping. three
feet, high every time they hit their local food
store. The cost of food, and the price of beef
in particular, has consumers baffled and
beaten. About all we get from the 'govern- ,
. ment on the subject is a monthly bulletin
telling us how the cost of food has shoved the
cost of living index up another notch—as if
we needed telling.
What puzzles us is 'that while the cost of
beef climbs, nobody seems to be making any.
money on it. The farmer says he _isn't; and
we know he isn't telling a lie. We know farm-
ers who bought young stock right off the cow
last spring for fattening; paid out more
money to combat the shipping fever, • fed-
-them all winter, grassed them this summer
and then sold them. The returns fbr' the
farmer wbuld make your hair stand on end.
They paid $100 per head for the young calves,'
not out of line according to the prices for
similar stock this year and sold them for
prices ranging from $144 to about $200 per
head. • Top price per pound was 371/2 cents,
good for the summer months.
Yet you walk into a store and the price of
good grade beef 1s $1.19 per pound and up.
Now somebody, somewhere has to be mak-
ing a few bucks. We know the farmer isn't
and the store owner swears he isn't; so that
leaves the packing houses. It shouldn't be too
difficult for the Department of Consumer Af-
fairs to come up with some answers; but so
far we haven't even heard a suggestion of a
study.
We've picked on beef because, it more
than any other product, seems to reflect the
mark-up in food costs from tI'e producer to
the consumer. Other items are just as bad.
For example, that expected increase in cof-
fee has already hit us. Five weeks ago we
bought a Targe jar of instant coffee for $1,59.
Last week we bought the same brand, same
sized jar of instant coffee at the same store.
The price was $2.39.
And so it goes, up, up and up. It's time
we started getting some answers. We're all
consumers; we all have to eat; so why don't
we all get together now that it's election time
and demand some action? It's all very well
to speak generalities about the economy,
employment, how lucky we are to be Cana-
dians and the corporate welfare bums, but
we'd like to know why steak off the hoof is
costing us so much money. Give us that an-
swer and we'll. give you our vote.
7 -Listowel Banner
Back to the buggy
Buggy making has been resurrected in
the large Mennonite communities surround-
ing the city of Kitchener, The Financial Post
says. Instead of farming the lush country-
side, three Mennonite followers have
shrewdly capitalized on their church rules
forbidding the use -of cars or trucks by mak-
ing a living from the only transportation ve-
hicle allowed—the buggy. Two of the men—
Silas Martin, 51, of Heidelburg, and Simeon
Martin, 31, of Elmira—are the only full-time
buggy makers in Canada. The third, Ivan
Sauder of Conestogo, is the only Canadian
making buggy parts.
Silas calls his business Homestead" Car-
riage Works; Simeon, Rural Carriage Sup,
plies; and Sauder, Bent Wood Specialties.
The Martins make three types of carriages—
the single -seater buggy, which costs,$350 ands
is the most popular; the $500 family car-
riage; and the $500 democrat or wagon. They
are made to order, with each taking about
two weeks to complete.
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There are teachers and th
are teachers. Most of us in
rank and file face from 150 to
students every school' day.
groan about the size of our cla
es, sigh over the impossibility
giving personal attention to
student, and grumble Contin
about the . amount of marking
. papers that we have to do
home. .
,.And then, of course, there
the aristocrats among teach
These are the people with e
classes, and not many of the
who teach in an easy 'atmosphe
of freedom.
We have one of each type ino
family this fall. Your humb
servant belongs to the great ma
of slaves in the profession, reac
ing like Pavlovian mice to bell
subject to the whims of. admini
tration, and bent almost doub
under a continual deluge of pap
work, ninety' per cent of whic
has nothing to do with the lear
ing situation.
-My wife „has joined • the tin
aristocracy. Yep, she's a teac
She has not "got axnb as we o
dinary teachers put it. She ha
"accepted. a position." °
It fair makes my .heart bleed.
come home about four, hea
straight for the refrigerator, hur
myself into a chair and mutter in
cantations such as "Oh, boy! Oh
boy! There must be some othe
way „of making a living."
She is sitting there, cool, unsul
ied, ready to regale me with
etailed account of her "day"
Some day! She starts at 11:20
.m., and goes non-stop for
hirty-five minutes. She has one
lass. There are five students in
. Private school. No bells. No
all supervision. No cafeteria)
upervision. No bus duty. No
ams to coach.
If she wants to take her class
ut and sit under a tree, or bring
em to our house to listen to
cords, no problem.
If I wanted to take a class out
nd sit under a tree, I'd have to
tify the Governor-General or
mebody a month ahead, in trip -
ate, and then the principal
ould veto the whole thing, be -
use it might start a trend.
her classes would be distracted
d jealous. Other teachers
ight want to do the same thing,
d the whole system would
umble overnight.
f she wantsi a .cigarette or a
p of coffee during her "teach -
day", no problem. She has it.
Chauvinist Pig
Bill Smiley
ere comes4iome with five little sheets
the of paper, and fusses over mark -
200 ing them as though she had just
We discovered something on a par
Ss- with the Dead Sea . Scrolls. -
of I come home with an armful of
each essays, look at her skinny sheaf
ual0 and. in. frustration hurl my eight
Ott pounds of paper into a corner.
at They have to be picked up again,
but it's wdrth it.
are Another thing that gets ' me:
you'd think her miserable little
band of five was the.only group of
students in the country. She can
spend twenty. minutes a day on
each of them, telling me what
Gordon didn't say and what Rick
said; and so on, and how she gent-
ly led them from the murky val-
leys into the sun -kissed moun-
tains of beauty and truth.
She thinks she's so dam' smart
that it's infuriating. For years,
I've been the savant of the fam-
ily. Poem or play, short story or
novel, my opinion was the final
one, accepted with proper humil-
ity. ,v
Now she thinks my Interpreta-
tionis wrong, and hers is right.
How's that for sheer ingratitude?
It's bad enough when a stranger
1 disputes a chap, but when it's his
d own flesh and blood—well, she's
I not quite, but practically—... I
- tell you, I'm not going to take
, much more of that.
r At the same 'time, along with
this effrontery,. there's another
- irritant. She hasn't the slightest
a scruple about picking my brain
• whenever she can find anything
there to pick. And next day toss-
ing an idea out as though she
hadn't stolen it twenty-fdtir hours
before.
There's one other aspect of the
arrers.
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ing four straight periods and 120
students, I have two alternatives.
I can just go on wanting, or 1 can
sprint the half -block to the men's
can, making like a dysentery vic-
tim, swallow two drags, choke on
them, and make the return dash
to confront the next class, red-
faced and coughing. Hardly
worth it.
That's all rather hard to take.
But what really rubs salt in the
wound is the homewotk. She
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Ibear Sir:
For the last few years the
Wingham Sportsmen Club has
provided a ski jump in the upper
pond for Water ski enthusiasts.
Although there are a number of
persons who do water ski in this
area, few use the jump for its
purpose. However, many swim-
mers use the jump for a slide or a
diving platform.
I'm sure few people realize who
provides this facility and those
who do use it just take it for gran-
ted. It is indeed unfortunate, too,
that some feel it is smart to break
it from its moorings, thus making
it a hazard for boaters and skiers
alike. This club is another
organization in our community
which prbvides an interest for
hunters and fishermen and
marksmen and through their
kindness has provided a facility
that has given hours of fun for
many swimmers who use the
river in the summer.
Our hats are off to the Sports-
men Club of Wingham for this
well used facility.
Jim Ward
Director of Recreation
situation that has me slightly
alarmed. Her earnings, while not
ample, are just enough to screw
up my income tax. .At the same
time, she's spending more than
she makes on books, equipment,
and new clothes. •
I wear my old gray suit five
days a week, four weeks a month.
But it seems that lady teachers,
especially in the aristocratic
bracket, have to wear something
different each day.
If this is an example of Wo-
men's Lib, you can call . rime a
male chauvinist pig.
Now I know why the peasants
stormed the Bastille and lopped
off the noodle of Marie Antoin-
ette.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Sept. 27;1.9
Wingham Advance -Times •
Dear Sir:
This letter may come as a s
prise is some people, when we
often hear and read about the ter
rible things some of our young
people do. But I had just th
opposite experience .last Sat
day morning.
A young boy in his teen
stopped in to buy a pop and
noticed two .other boys in th
small truck.
It was the morning after th
hard frost so this was the topic 0f
conversation. He mentioned th.
were going to Durham to hi
grandfathers to dig strawberry
plants to plant, and I remarked
that I thought this was only don
in the spring but he said it coul
be either time. '
I mentioned something to th
effect if I'd known this. I'd hav
gotten some earlier and that wa
the extent of our conversation
We closed Saturday afternoon
to attend a funeral. When
came home here was a big box f
freshly dug strawberry plants
left at the door with a note men
tioning having been in earlier and
they had some extra plants, and
stating what kind they were and
wishing me success with them.
Ikever saw any of thesys
before and don't remember if he
mentioned where they were
from, but 1 was so pleased I just
hope they may read this or drop
in again some time, as I did so
much appreciate their kind
thought.
Arid I'm sure there are many
kind deeds done by our young
people, but we so often overlook
them.
72 ducing, doors and put theme on the
market and take whatever they
could get for them. Mutely
ur- not. It seems the farmer is ex-
pected
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so petted td do that to satisfy these
people that think they should al-
ways have cheap,food, regardless
e of the fact that farm prices have
ur-. not kept pace with the increase in
costs and that the average wage-
s earner's dollar will buy more
1 food than in any previous/earls.air True, there are people whose
income would make it difficult
e for them to buy the necessities of
life. Well, what are goverMneets
®y for but to do for people the things
5 they cannot do for themselves,
which should include the supple-
ment of incomes that are below*
e certain level.
d To go back to the: question of
costs, I recall that when the
e Wingham Advance -Times found
e their costs had risen they, by a
s mere stroke of a pen, doubled the
• subscription rate. Well, Mr. Edi-
tor, when has the farmer -ever
we been able to do that when he has
o been faced over years with ever-
increasing costs? No, he has been
subject to just about what the
market would pay pim.
The' big difference between the
manufacturer and the producer .
of farm products—the manu-
facturer can stop production' al-
most anytime, something the
farmer cannot do, therefore he is
very much at the mercy of the
market.
• Yours truly,
Mrs, Jack Pitcher
Advance -Times,
Wingham•.
Dear Editor:
The wrong approach, you say,
Mr. Editor. What do you or the
abresumers' Association know
out quotas on farm products?
It is absolutely false to imply that
-quotas are designed to create ar-
tificially high prices: ••4 9iiiid=
simple the reason for quotas on
farm products would be to assure
the producer a price that had
some relationship to the cost of
production', without creating a
glut on the market.
How long, for example, would
Stanley -Berry keep on producing
doors if they did not have orders
for which they could sell at 'a
'profit? Would they k ep on pro •
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TODAYS CHILD
BY°HELEN ALLEN
This has been a difficult year for Ronny.
Ile has seen a .younger brother go to adopting parents. Then
two girls whom he knew as fosttr children like himself were also
adopted.• , -
But ;so far an adoption home has.not been found for Ronny.
No wonder this nine-year-old is worried about his future and is.
constantly asking: "What about me?"
Ronny is an attractive youngster with a pleasant shy manner,
very eager to be friends. Canadian -Indian in descent, he is in
good health, perhaps a little small for his age, with dark eyes.
dark hair and medium complexion: His glasses are for near-
sightedness.
Ronny is pictured outdoors where he spends his happiest
times. Ile would like to live on a farm., He loves baseball,
camping and hockey. Fishing— summer or winter is his delight.
Ronny is not a great student and had some difficulties. in
(;rade three, but he was promoted and is now in Grade four. His
special problem is with reading. however, he is'an•interesting
boy Who expresses himself well.
This lovable youngster needs a mother and father to love him
and take an interest in him and his doings. They should be
warm, affectionate people who understand he has memories of
his past life and whb will not pressure him for academic
achievement. it will be best if he is the youngest in the family or
at least if there are no children close to him in age.
To inquire about adopting Ronne. please write. to Today's
Child, Box 888, Station K, Toronto. For general adoption in-
formation. ask your children's Aid Society.
M. R. Smith,
RR 4, Wingham.
Note—First, the price of this •
newspaper was not doubled and
second, the Advance -Times is
subject to open market condi-
tions. It can only be sold for what-
ever the public is willing to pay.
Nor does the Advance -Times ask
that other publishers be required
to maintain the same prices.
Newspapers operate in a fully
competitive market. Please note
too, that the editbriiil referred to
above fully acknowledged the
need for a solution to problems
faced by farm people.
'Editor,
Advance -Times.
Dear Sir:
–In this,letter I would like t ex-
press some opinions about our
feelings on the matter, of trans-,
portation—railways, buses,
autos. Pensioners suffer the
brunt of the abuses. They are
.limited to walking or paying
through the nose for costs of
travel have risen. The pensioner
suffers a hardship unless he has
other means of income.
The pensioner pays heavily for .
whatever he needs—car insur-
ance, drugs, taxis, all of which
cost far tob much for pensioners.
Gasoline has come down but auto.
insurance has increased so much.
There was an increase in my
premium of $3 in April; now
another increase of $8 for a six-
month period. In the spring of
1973 the provincial .license for a
six -cylinder car will increase
from the present $27.50 by at least
$2. -
Where will it stop? (Perhaps
when there are no cars over 4 or 5
years.old on the roads.) The per-
son with a car older .than five
years will not be able to pay the
nsurance and buy the gasoline.
I say if you can drive on a pen -
ion you should be able to get in-
urance at cost. My car has been
n good condition since 1932 and I
either smoke nor drink and have
ever had an accident.
Frederick W. Daw.
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ear Friends:
Last April, during my brief
urvey of conditions among
angladesh retournees in and
round Dacca, I had the happy
pportunity to personally distri-
ute some of the attractive little
irts, made from our simple
Stitch -a -Shirt" pattern; they
ad been sent to me just before
y departure -from Canada last
nuary. Never shall I forget the
light of anxious mothers when
ey received these small Cana-
an masterpieces. . . Most
milies are destitute; children
d adults lack even the most
sic essentials and our little
irts are filling an immense and
gent need.
During the past few months our
lunteers have shipped
ousands more of these appeal-
, infinitely useful garments,
tched by eager, clever hands
m coast to coast, but
usands of little bodies still cry
t for our help. You can fashion
se simple shirts in every size
ween 1 and 10 in any color of
rainbow, out of remnants of
d or new materials. Please
not only cotton and light or
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