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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-08-29, Page 16Auguol 174- H. GORDON GREEN This is an invitation for you cigarette smokers to light up and enjoy yourself while I give you some statistics about yourself. Ityou smoke a pack a day, your cigarettes are° costing you well over $200 a year. And here are some of the things you get for your money. First you get a lung full of garbage and a cough that will probably soon have oysters in it. The relationship between • cigarette puffing and lung cancer has been so well publicized now that there is no point of commenting further on the matter. The effect that cigarette smoke has on the human lung was perhaps best summarized by the prominent surgeon who, after looking into the chest cavities of more patients than he could remember declared that "Any medical man who uses cigarettes is out of . his head!" But did you know that smoking also increases the chances of mouth and throat cancer by 500 per centi.and that heart disease is five to ten times more common in smokers? Add another 200 per cent to that heart trouble risk if you happen to have high, blood pressure. Did you know that the cigarette smoker is also much more prone -to. sinusitis, peptic and gastric ulcers and cerebrovascular troubles than is the nolo smoker? Women who smoke a pack a day run a 100 per cent higher risit of having premature babies, and their babies will, on the average, ' be smaller at birth and experi- ence greater difficulties d the first few hours of life. Oto sum it all, up, as the insurance companies have already done for, us, the'pack-a-day smoker is depriving himself of seven years of life. • - And knowing all this we are • justly comforted by the fact that the Department of Health and Welfare has been carrying on, a program to dissuade people from the cigarette addicti9n. But the annual budget for this program is only *200;000 per year which is far, far less : than the tobacco the Department of Agriculture maintains three tobacco research stations in Ontario with the idea of helping tobacco farmers increase their yield per acre. Grants have also been made in the hundreds of thousands of dollars bracket to enable tobacco processors to enlarge their operations. In other words, we the taxpayers are footing the bill for the national program . which encourges unto kick the habit at the same time we are giving the government the money to en- courage the tobacco industry to become bigger and better. The fact is simply this, that while the government recognizes the evil which tobacco leaves in its wake, it also realizes that it is a very profitable evil. Did you know that next to wheat, tobacco is Canada's most important agricultural export? Did you know that the financial benefits inhaled from the annual bonfire, of Canadian tobacco products. total more than one and a quarter billion dollars? Or to bring this down to a more comprehensible kind of mathematics, nine per cent of all the money our federal government rakes in to run this countrycome s from tobacco taxes.. Comes now however a survey made by the Norwegians which 4. shows that even with a tax yield like that,the habit of smoking may be costing a government much more than it brings in. Because this Norwegian survey proves that when all the costs of tobacco sinking are added up - when, you consider the hospitali- zation costs and the medical fees and the loss of productivity for lung cancer eases alone, the total is greater thanthe revenue taken in ` by tobacco taxes: The Norwegians also suggested that the most costly fires to their forests as well as to their homes was probably caused by the cigarette. Does all of this make you fidget and sweat a bit? Well, light up • COULDN'T WEATHER SPRING FLOODS -- The Logan Mill in Brussels which shut down a few years ago was not in great shape before the recent spring floods. The water not only washed much of the already damaged dam, but swept away much of the support holding the wheels in place. The t turbine wheels, whichare placed under water (not seen in photo) were undamaged however. The stonework and woodwork of the mill, inside and out, is still in good condition making possible conversion into a museum plausible. farmers of Ontario aloneAreceive.:a r.,anothprs *ea, Cigarettes- are.}„,„) in various government subsidies, ImPPAsfext to steady- yowl nervego ,1,1 r.--A.tidliradditithrtii"OlielillibOidies, you know! . CROSSWORD + • • By A. •C.. 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REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newitpapers Assoeiation, Suite Si, 2 Bkor Si, West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 IT'S OLD ENOUGH TO BE HAUNTED- The 114 -year-old house was built when the mill, located adjacent to the house, was first opened. The condition of the house is remarkable considering its age. At present it is not inhabited, although it is owned by the McCalls of Brussels. There is a chance that the house may be torn down if economics demand it. The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority had the opportunity to buy it bait did not due to lack of notice of sale. • . CHESS TIME Game boosts small .nations IBy JOSEPH MILL BROWN At the recent Chess Olympi- ad, in the French Riviera cap- ital of Nice, the team from Nicaragua gave up after only two rounds of play. It oper- ated under a handicap: two of its players got lost and never showed up. (Well, after all, it was the Riviera.) For many small countries chess has provided some prestige on the world scene. In Cuba the Castro regime has made chess a university sub- ject. Last year the Philippines ' hosted the Far East's first big international tournament, hoping to spring its potent tal- ent on an unsuspecting world. (A few years ago Bobby Fischer was lucky to escape with a draw against ace Raoul Naranja.) The interesting thing about chess, as about basketball, is that big countries don't neces- sarily make big winners. Even during Gen. Charles deGaulle's search for gran- deur, the French teams got more kicking around than President Nixon's reputation. As for England, it Could al- most always be counted upon to make everyone's list of teams least likely to succeed. Yet despite the surprising successes of Franco -British teams in the Nice Olympiad, chess and chessplayers in many developed countries of the West are deep wells of in- feriority complexes. A few years ago, in a grimy English industrial town, the chess league matches were held in a poolroom, where cogitating nerves were exposed to the noise of crackling billiard balls. At the climax of one match, the players inadvertently let. themselves go, indulging in audible conversation as they analyzed their games. From the other end of the hall came a harsh demand from one of the pool sharks. "Will you chessplayers please shut up?" he screamed. "I can't hear my- self think!" They timidly shut up. The fact is chess supremacy will return to the developed countries only when the game is giveddue recognition for its educational and emotional value. Character -building in our society is too often equated with the accumula- tion in physical sports of huge numbers of cauliflower ears and broken collarbones. This is nonsense. Courage is more often forged in the self - disciplining challenges of the mind, of which chess is the foremost exponent. The Euro- pean revolutions of 1848 abounded in stalwarts who were vertitable chess power- houses. One of them was Jo- hann Lowenthal, a colorful freedom fighter who, after leaving his native Budapest, migrated, to England and America. Lowenthal's historic mat& with Paul Morphy, in New Or- leans, was almost as colorful as the hyperbole in one of his alleged autobiographies, which purported to relate his experience4 in the Hungarian Revolution. "Upon the battlefield I lay, my hand still grasping the sword, crimson with the blood of my foes, and the life- blood oozing from my wounds. Over the green grass ran a 77 red river of blood. Suddenly I heard a voice, and it cried 'Lowenthal!' "I turned my wearied head, and my eyes lighted upon my illustrious compatriot, Szen, wounded and, as I feared, dy- ing. Then came the sweetest words I had ever heard. `Low- enthal, have you got a chess- board?' And there upon the crimson -dyed grass, with the groans of the dying sounding in our ears, we examined the pawn -and -two opening." Years later Lowenthal was asked if the story was really true. "Not exactly," he said. "But some of those. sentences are mine.!' 1970 OLYMPIAD SIEGEN, WEST GERMANY Raymond Keene ( England ) Raoul Naranja (Philippines) 1. N-KB3 N-KB3 2. P -B4 • P B4 3. P-KN3 P-KN3 4. B -N2 B -N2 5.0-0 ,N -B3 6. N-133 0-0 7. P -Q3 P-QR3 8. B -K3 P -Q3 9. P-KR3 P -R3 10. Q -Q2 K -R2 11. P -Q4 PxP 12. NxP B -Q2 13. QR -B1 R -N1 14. P -N3 N -K1,, 15. KR -Q1 P -K3 16. N -K4 N -K2 17. N -B2 N -B4 18. B -R7 R -B1 19. B -B5 B -K4 20. B -N4 B-QB3 21. P -K3 P-QN3 22. B-QR3 . P-QR4 23. N-Kl Q -B2 24. N -Q3 N-133 25. NxB - B,NN 26. N -N4 NkN 27. BxB N -B3 28. BxN NPxB 29. BxP Resigns LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 242 Inkerman St. East, Listowel, Ontario N4W 2N1. Mr. D. McCann, "Crossroads" Dear Mr. McCann: We wish to take this op- portunity to express our pleasure and our , thanks about the Crossroads coverage of the Student employment campaign inyour issue of July 25, 1924. Your article was well presented and produced a definite impact on the ,communityWe have received ,co its, And q� fa ul t� t. In c a, -res the o s • story., one employer who was mentioned inyour article Oriorted to us that his business increased 60 per cent C3I as employment naMrtalgn. means of letters of COO m ndation such as this one we hope to encourage you to el ler to render a w wile Service the area we mutually serve. Thankyoufor your f'eet and your efforts. Yours sincerely, ,f. C. 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