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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-05-16, Page 18Page 2"="cr' o ds- May 16, 1974 H. GORDON GREEN In that Red Ensign part of On- tario where I grew up, the villfige schoolmaster was expected to do something more than get his pupils whipped into shape for high school. In those days he was also expected to train a Cadet Corps. What was a Cadet Corps? Well, in our school at least it -was com- prised of every boy of eleven or more, which, as 1 recall, enabled the master to draft enough raw recruits to make up two platoons of about a dozen each. ,Drilling began in the boys' playroom in midwinter. We gave up our re- cess periods for it and we learned such vital military "skills as how to stand at "Attention ! " and "At Ease!" We did Left Turn, Right Turn, About Turn, Form Fours, Right and Left Wheel - and most important of all, how to "By the Right, Que-eck March ! " -Did I forget the salute? Oh I a mustn't forget to mention that we a spent hours learning the proper way to ',salute. Maybe that was w even more important than "By r the Right Quick March." re Come the first week in April r when the mud in • the school yard M was dry enough and the master ' got ready to take his army a manoevres out into the play- m ground. And now something new m was added to our soldiering. In • one corner of the playroom was a v windowless cubicle about ten foot square-whose(R contents were kept properly sacred by a giant pad- ( lock on the solid board door. But $5 now the master would find the no key to that lock and w allowed inside to select our rifle. he that day! But the grandest day of all was yet to come. That was inspection day when the school would be dismissed and a sure -enough Colonel would be on hand to ap- praise the Military antics we had been rehearsing for the past five months. , 'he afternoon before the great day we were allowed into the cubicle a second • time, this time to select a uniform. The uni- forms too were Boer War left- overs, complete with forage cap, Sam Browne belt and puttees; and since history records that the Boer War was foughgi mostly by full grown men, when we finally got those uniforms draped over us, most of us looked" as though we might have fallen off a roof and through an awning. But next day when the Colonel finally came up all the way from London, complete with . limou- i'ne, chauffeur, swagger -stick nd a square foot of ribbons cross his heart, there wasn't a hint of a smile on his face. And hen we stood like frozen cock obins whilst he made his official view, he strutted along_ our anks as solemn as if we were His ajesty's Coldstream Guards. We always passed inspection, nd as a reward the traffic ain street was halted as arched down to the ice crea parlor afterwards for the scoop anilla or chocolate generous id for by the master himsel umour had it that his own and was the princely sum of .00 a head for training us. And doubt he also took an under - on GALLERY OWNER we of Toronto hang one m tion for Toronto gal Iery°s if outside Wingham; is Y f. re- st andable pride in knowing tha The rifles were .303 Lee -Enfield; wo -the long Lee -Enfield; left ,over from the Boer War, and now to all co our, other military accomplish- sac meats we learned how to "Right fo Shoulder Arms!" Lee And let me tell you that for had done his bit to make the rld safe for democracy.) Ridiculous, you think? Well, if uld show you a picture of us into those Boer War uni for and with those king-sized Enfields hoisted onto our uldets; you would have no bt that it was indeed utterly culous. ut come to think of it soberly, our bedraggled Cadet Corps more ridiculous than that and' span Colonel with the gger-stick, grimly strutting fruit salad of ribbons? me tatittinit:of itSoberly, isn't ftiii=;title military WaySi ridlcukiiiS? Guenter Heim helps' artist Ken Hanson of Mr. Hanson's paintings in prepara- next showing. The Heim Gallery, just the only one of its kind within 60 miles CHESS TIME game can be war of nerves some of us who were onlysli tl ou taller and heavier than he rifle d ridi that was no mean achieve- B meat. was Then for one memorable day any we were taken outside theavillagg, spic to a firingrange. and we actually swa learned how to sight a target and his fire alew.r l bullets. ►wra .pygr»e MY, tism Avelleithig r in °our chests ri 12. z b. 4 f Is oe IS 14 Is ri t o 0 t' y. ?s st 2.11 s` 11 1.e Vil 3o tit j2 it so0 iiM 3 • Vt 43 44 S 46 41 CO 49 S3 So 3S SI ■ ACR OSS 1 -.Aware 9 - Wood joint 10 - Officefurntture 12 - An ancient Asiatic 13- Alger 15 - Old age (Scottish) 17 - To uncover (poetical) 18 - To address 20 - Sailor 21 - Music note 22 - Have being 23 Meadow 25 - Parent 26 - Newspaperman 28 - Enjoyment of cruelty 30 - Either 31 - Roman 1100 32 - Loose -fEning garments 36 - Far East 39 - Preposition 40 - Cooktngvesael 41 - Large container for liquids 42 - Sloth 43 - American Ind[an 45 T Color 47 - Girl's nickname 48 - Male title of respect (plural) 50 - Make known 51 - Domestic an tma l 52 - To void 54 - Figured disks 56 - Eight -sided DOWN" 1 - To transfer 2 - unit 3 - Negative 4 - Surreptitious marksman 5 - Standards or excetzence 6 - old Egiash (atb.) ©©SCE ►M.g. ©fiIllIC; [t✓EJF.f j Maki. 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REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, 2 f3loor St., West, Toronto 962.4000 ISA Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 By JOSEPH MILL BROWN It is no ' accident that the Soviet Union's war of nerves against Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Kirov Ballet couple, Valery and Galina Panov, among others, resembles a chess match of a few years ,ago. That was labeled, appropriately enough, "Russia vs. Rest of the World." "yes. urse. Nerves ,are ' everything,'eadlimed Den- mark's super grandmaster, Bent Larsen, when I asked him if chessplayers ever real- ly had such things. The fact that a game is con- ducted beautifully for five hours means not a thing if a player lets .the tension get to him so that in the last minute, he zigs instead of zags, and winds up with Indian nuts in- stead of money for a prize. - Former world champion Emanuel Lasker was the su- preme psychologist, He didn't dwell too much on his op- ponent's move. (He felt there was more than one right move in a position,) He strove in- stead to play on his opponent's nerves by searching for the move that would most embar- rass him. Lasker played the man more than the chess- board - which in sports, or in' business, q�r in life too a pretty effective technique. Another former champion, Jose Capablanca of Cuba, was gre tatbi g 4Th. a big game, late at night at the 1927 New York International Tournament, he went to a bil- liard table and ran off a break of ' 59, just to show everyone the excellent condition of his nerves. Nerves are so much a give- away; it becomes imperative Agricultural Tidbits With Adrian Vos' Some people have an odd • way of figuring. What is not so odd is that the figuring turns mostly so that they make more money. Take, for instance, the Canadian Food Processors'. Association. Because of the increased cost of peas the price of a '14 -ounce can of peas will go up 7 cents. However, the processor pays the farmer only 1 cent more for those peas. I cannot but wonder if Mrs. Plumptre is aware of this kind of arithmetic. 0,0 0 I read in "Farm and Country" magazine that a new stype of rabbit has come from good old England. It could do the same thing that earlier English rabbits did in Australia, overrun the country, but this time in the rabbit barns. They can raise 100 little ones a year. The male mentioned was something else. "After mating with 60 females each day for seven months, he died one happy rabbit," the ' magazine says. 000 Much has been written in the urban press about the ban on American beef. A little that it is because of potential cancer -through American use of DES -and a lot on the way it affects the, price of a steak. Not so much has been said about the position of the pork producer. He, however, is in as much of a jam as the beef man. Losses of about $15 per head are now common: If you figure that a total of five finished hogs weigh as much as one finished steer, you can also figure that his losses are com- 'parable. The beef man received some help in the form of a federal subsidy but the pork man is still just hoping. If the hope fades we - will see heavy cutbacks in pro- duction, followed by pork short- ages and subsequent high prices. Again, the producer loses and later on the consumer loses. 000 After Agriculture Minister Whelan apparently got assur- ances 0 from' the fertilizer com. panies that sufficient fertilizer would be available, it comes as kind of a shock to learn that huge trailerloads of the stuff go to the U.S. and our farmers are told that their needs can't be met. We hope that stern measures against these profiteers will be taken. of the Wingham area. Although Mr. Heim concedes that his gallery is located in what some people might call an "un- likely spot", he is convinced that he can succeed. that a player's demeanor be a model of zombie -like impas- sivity, The 1948 world cham- pionship tournament, in Hol- land, was a disaster for ex - titleholder Max Euwe after it became an open secret that, whenever he was in a tight spot, his ears turned bright red. One striking habit is that of America's newest interna- tional master, 21 -year-old Jim Tarjan, of Sherman Oaks, Calif. He will fiddle and twirl with his finger, throughout an entire game, the same lock of curly hair that dangles over his forehead A successful gimmick so far, but the big question is: What will* do if he ever +turnss, bald? I• The current master of psy- chological • warfare is Brazilian Henrique Mecking. His technique at a Hastings (England) tournament was described amusingly for Brit- ish - Chess Magazine by Inter- national Master Raymond Keene. Medting would complain loudly that his o von doing something vhich - dis- turbed his concentration, and then bark An order that he desist from what he was -do- ing. Thus he demanded that George Botterill put away his dgarette lighter, that Victor Korchnoi stop playing with his hands, that William Hartston refrain from moving in his seat. The climax came agairi\st 21 -year-old Ulf Andersson, of • Sweden, considered one of the . gentlest and 0 pleasantest of persons on the international chess circuit. As is his habit, Andersson kicked off his shoes, sat on one foot and dangled the other+ menacing- ly. Probably mindful of the way a swinging leg can swing, Mecking's complaint was modified to the mysterious order that Andersson please stop playing with his hands. Undoubtedly the Victorian novelist, Mortimer Collins, would have approved of Mecking when he noted that "there are two classes of man: those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist, and those who aim to control circumstances, who play chess." THE ALTErC MANS HAD A VERY SOLD AND STRIK- ING AR's' FORM. THE DESIGN OF THIS MAZE WAB INSPIRED BV TIIEIf APPROACH TO T� OF r0' cr UNES. THE OEFORE you slmPLY TRAM A PATH II' RU TIS WSW +r I I'S ALt. SIX SUN supers WiTIHOUT PASSING. OVER A PREVIOUS Y 'MYELOID ROWE. STARTOff lug CHAND �D � THE 14a MIGHT- NANO (SOLUTION MAY BE FOUND ON PAGE 4) OLYMPIAD - 1972 Skopje, Yugoslavia Ulf Andersson (Sweden) La jos Portlach • (:Hungary)I SICILIAN DEFENSE 1. P -K4 2. N-KB3 3. B-N5ch 4.0-0 5.11-K1 6. P -B3 7. B -B1 8. P-KR3 9. P 10. P -4/R4 11. N-3----- f 2. PxBP 13. k' -B4. 14. P.Q1114 15. PxP 16. N.Q6ch 17. B -R3 18. NxNP 19. P :NSch 20. 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