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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-06, Page 18dlifebrogge ;I • 1 1 i4 The land is clifferent- butpeopIe are the sume During the past summer several Huron County 4-H mem- bers participated in exchange Visit4 with young farm people in E> Stern Ontario. The exchange VMS sponsored by the Huron my Pork ProdUlcers' Associa- tion. Here Jim Fairies of Gerrie writes of the comparisons of farm Rife between two widely -sepa- rated areas of our province. 0-0-0 • HURON - GLENGARRY EXCHANGE Another simmer has come and gone and another 4-H Exchange has passed, leaving with it many happy and meaningful memories and experiences. Again 1 feel very happy and fulfilled in being able to participate • in such a learning experience. Our province of Ontario on a map looks reasonable in size, but as you cross it from our side to the very furthest east in Glen- garry County you realize just how large and vastly different it is. Travelling by train you come up against everything from the quaint railway station in Strat- H. GORDON GREEN Now that the salaries of our Members of Parliament are of special concern to the taxpayers, it seems to me that one of. the reasons they think they must have more money is because they, like politicians everywhere else m the western world, are now spending inordinate sums to get elected. The cost of becoming the people's choice has risen dis- gracefully in the past 15 years. I see for instance in one of our rural 'weeklies here in the pro- vince of Quebec that it cost Tom Lefebvre $14,150 to retain his seat in Pontiac county. And his op- ponent spent nearly $17,000 trying to unseat him. In the Gatineau riding it cost Gaston Clermond nearly $21,000 to keep his seat, even though his party had a relatively easy battle there. Now both of these ridings are rural and the campaigns waged were relatively low-key and in- expensive.. Inexpensive com- pared to some of the contests in Toronto, for instance, where millionaire Steve Roman is ru- moured to have gambled over $100,000 in his try for a seat. Even at that, Canadian politics is a pretty cheap gamble compared to what goes on in the United States where it took $2 million just to nominate the late John Kennedy for the Presidency.. American politics may indeed already have progressed to the place where the one pre -requisite for a man's rise to political power is that he start out by being a millionaire. Unless of course, the Fates contrive to spare him the costs of an election -entirely, as they did for Mr. Ford. Coining back to Canada, it seems to me that the Honourable Members who listened to that heartbreaking speech Mr. Sharp gave them before he introduced that bill to raise their salaries, might have suggested an amend - P u i VPtietio.. 1%14 - YOU eau have taw figuring out your message from the Orient by use of this pleasant little letter puzzle. 1f the number of letters In your drat nate la 3 or less. subtract from 7. If 'sore than S letter* In your first name. subtract from 13. Now take this result and dudyour key letter In the word ORIENT at the top of this puzzle. Then. starting at the upper left corner. rbeek each one of your large key letters as 1t appears from left to right. below the key letters Is ■ code message for you. ment. I think they might have told Mr. Sharp that he wouldn't have to pay them quite so much if he would just put something in the bill that would limit the amount they could spend trying to get elected. Personally I think that, no candidate should be allowed to spend more than $5,000 on his campaign. Whether the $5,000 would be his own or from the party's bagmen wouldn't matter. I say let the law be changela to make it a crime for more than that amount of money to be spent trying to get any man into one of those moss -green seats at Ot- tawa. I tried for one of those seats myself on two occasions, and neither time did it cost me or anyone else anywhere near that. And looking back on those days when I was young enough and innocent enough to do such a thing, I don't see how more money would have helped me any unless I started passing it out under the tables of the taverns. I had enough to get my picture in every paper and on at least one telephone pole on very sideroad. (Put them up! The Conservatives were mostly old men, so I was told, and they wouldn't bother climbing! ) I had my say on radio and television. I had coffee and doughnuts and speech meetings. I published a folder telling the voter how utter:, superior and accomplished I was, and they reached every post office in the riding in lots of time to be suit- ably contemplated. I can vouch for that because I saw bushels of them in the waste -baskets of said post offices. So offhand I'd say that I "did all I could to win, and the fact that I didn't win was merely one more indication of my riding exercis- ing its sovereign right to be wrong. It also indicated that the Con- servatives weren't all old men. ORIENT s s 4 a 6 7 N. R hg IE e h 0 TNO o. b a p I n ER a or T ER n o 0 p 1 e N p TR i dr I O o TNE g p d IR g ,a ON r y TEEI h 1 e e T t ORN t c. s R E t w E 1, 4 T d 0 u IN t o T a RN i 1 I in 0 T 0 ye IENR c t u v TE a h• ONR e t 1 I t OIRN V^ r t i T h E t ION e e o TER e a i INN n s I n' R e O n E c T a IR d s OE t t 'I d ford, where we boarded, to the hustle and bustle of Union Station in Toronto, where w,e changed trains; from the +, * gh quality agricultural land between Strat- ford and Toronto to the bush and rock around Kingston. We arrived in Cornwall and were taken to our host ffamily by the local Ag. Rep. My host for the week was Keith McRae, who lived with his father and mother and three sister' just outside of the little village of Lancaster. Right away 1 noticed certain similarities and differences. Keith's father runs a 40 -cow dairy farm similar to ours, but the situation is quite different. Our farm in Huron borders on the be- ginnings of the Maitland River, theirs on the mighty St. Law- rence. The shipping channel is approximately 500 yards from their cottage, which is located on their "back 10". Our farm is located on little used Highway 87; theirs is trans- versed by Highway 401. -Ours is located near railway tracks where we suitably name the train the "Hooterville Trolley" ; theirs again is transversed by the CN mainline from Montreal to Toronto. Quite understandably getting to sleep that night was a major feat, but I got used to it. Other differences became ap- parent also. One of these was the extent to which the area was being built up. Being 50 miles from Montreal and right along the St. Lawrence probably had much to do with this. In travelling around the area I heard many tories about the "hobby" facm- s and their misadventures in agriculture. The soil type between here and there was understandably quite different. Right along the river it is fairly sandy, low, land, as com- pared to our clay loam. With the sandy loam came the fact that there were no rocks in sight, a thought that made me wish I lived there. Crops were also a lit- tle different. Around that area very few cereal crops are grown. Keith's fabler grew corn and for bedding used the dried corn stalks. Alfalfa was practically non-existent, being replaced by treefoil and grasses. Forgetting the physical differ- ences, what about the people? Well, it seems that wherever you go in this province, people in the farming communities are just great. The people were very easy to talk to and very courteous. The McRae family was active in every aspect in the community from church to 4-H. It showed in their enthusiasm in their way of life. This helped very much to strengthen my opinion that the city is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Right now I am living. in a`cityt' en- vironment at theUniversity of Guelph, but I hope to return to the farm community as soon as pos- sible. Crossroads l Published every Wednesday as the big. action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner. The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros Limited, publishers. Box 390, Wingham Barry Wenger. Pres. Robert O. Wenger. Sec -Treas Display and Classified ad deadline -- Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association. Suite Si. 2 Moor St , West. Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc , 127 George St . Oakville 884-0184 TEACHING— Under the watchful eYes of Mrs. Norman (Lynn) Schmeler, one of the stu- dents taking ski courses at Conestoga College, Harriston centre, readies for take off down the open stope at Minto Glen. Anyone with a desire to ski can learn, Mrs. Schmeler says. However, skiing must be learned step by step. His fun in the Forties .. . (Continued from front page) His role as the town's arena manager, he says, also limits the amount of time he has to make surveys of programs people might want. He thinks skiing is a good sport and says, "What a shame not many people are participating in it." Elmer Wick, Mount Forest rec- reation director, also says skiing is a good sport. He, too, says his department would be interested in helping any skiing group that might ask for its help. Then adds, "Skiing seems to be a couples' sport." The recreation department, he notes, did advertise for skiers two years ago and got no response. Skiing is as much of an inter- national sport as any. There are youngsters who aspire to getting Olympic skiing gold medals as there are in other sports. There are others who just want to experience the thrill of sliding down the hill. It doesn't really matter when one learns to ski. At least not as far as enjoying it ise concerned. Says Mrs. Schmeler, "There are mothers taking . the same course with their children and doing equally well. Of course younger people have more nerve." On the whole, however, all one needs is a desire to learn to ski, she adds. Whether or not skiing is a part of recreational programs in the municipalities surrounding Minto Glen, its enthusiasts seem to be going it their private way. Mr. Howes says Minto Glen is on the same elevation, 180 feet, as Chikapee near Waterloo and he plans on expansion in the future should it be necessary. "There is a lot of room for ex- pansion," he said, contentedly. CROSSWORD + + + By A. C. 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FIDE is responsible for every aspect of chess' organization at the international level, and all world championships come under its aegis. ,FIDE gained its present au- thority over world champion= ships when Alexander Alek- hine died in 1946 and left the world without a champion. FIDE stepped in, organized a tournaltnent of the world's strongest players to decide Alekhine's successor, and es- tablished a process to deter- mine future challengers. The first stage, .a world championship is a series of zonal tournaments. FIDE has the world divided into' ten Zones for this purpose. The first three are subdivisions of Europe. The other `designa- °tions are; IV' Russia, V United States, VI. Canada, VII Car- ibbean area; VIII South American, IX Western Asia, X Pacific Ocean area. For the 1975 Men's World Championship Match,, 20 qualifiers from zonal tourna- ments- jOinetrivaw.iffreientl. seeded players in two Inter- zonal Tournaments. The two interzonals produced six can- didates who joined two other specially • seeded players in the recently completed Candi- dates Matches. If all goes well in some delicate negotiations, Anatoly Karpov, winner of the Candidates Matches, will join another specially seeded player in the World Cham- pionship Match in 1975. From the first zonal tourna- ment to the World Champion- ship Match is a four-year pro- cess. FIDE, however, at- tempts to schedule a World Championship Match at least every three years. This schedule is made possible by overlapping. While the winner of the 1971 Candidates Matches, Bobby Fischer, was playing the World Champion, Boris Spassky, for the World Championship in 1972, zonal tournaments were also iri pro- cess to establish qualifiers for the next cycle. This highly structured pro- cess began in 1948 when FIDE established the first series of zonal and interzonal tourna- YOU CAN FIX -IT By Gene Von CHAIR SQUEAKS If the upholstered seats of some of your dining -room chairs are squeaking annoyingly, you can silence them very easily. First remove the seats from the chair frames, then staple some waxed paper, folded to form one - inch -wide strips of two or three thicknesses, all around the under- sides of the seats. Then, after you have replacod-the seats on the chairs, you will be pleased at how quiet thea have become. ,n.eresa.,06,1011 pa ca_,._,. ments to determine a chal- lenger to Mikhail Botvinnik, Alekhine's successor. Game of the Week In the seventeenth game from the Finals Match - we published last week, Karpov won with Black. Leonard Bar- den, in his chess column in the Manchester Guardian Week- ly, November 30, 1974, thinks Korchnoi'S habitual clock trouble in the game caused him to overlook 28 N -Q5 and 30 NxBch. Do you agree? 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