The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-05-22, Page 20Y 1975-
HESS POINTS
mputer made
norpry member
is the be.5t chess
Player? Mac Hack VI won a
•443115.10)trepby in a local tour-
- tkluDelt, and was promptly
Warded an honorary mem-
hershili:ia the united states
Mess Federation.
Since this Is an honor not
often bestowed on the highest
rated players, some dues -
paying members might have
questioned the Federation's
action. In this instance, how-
ever, no one complained. Mac
Hack VI is a computer pro-
gram that plays chess.
Mac Hack VI was de-
veloped by Richard Green-
blatt and others in 1966 in the
Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory of Project MAC
at the Massachusetts % Insti-
tute of Technology. It is one of
many chess -playing com-
puter programs that have
been developed in the last 25
years.
Why would major research
organizations become in-
volved in developing chess -
playing computer programs?
One. of the techniques re-
searchers use to solve • their
more complex problems is to
buildmodels of the problems.
With a model, they can test a
large number of alternative
•solutions, and eventually
, select the best alternative.
Apart from the intellectual
delights it affords the play-
ers, the game of chess also
happens to be a precisely de-
veloped model that is repre-
sentative of many of man's
more difficult decision-
making activities.
Let's take an example. The
President of a company that
manufactures and sells
widgets is considering the
possibility of opening a new
teffitory. (Should he move
his KB to N5?) Sales in his
• existing teriitories have been
.sluggish and competition
from a rival widget -maker
has been strong. His present
• attacking position has been
• stymied and he must seek a
new attack.)
• The president must
- evaluate the competition he
la Vailleetin the, tie* Whited%
(L the KB SitimLtoslog
at N5?) He s must also
examine the demand for hia
product in the new territory.
(Does the N5 position for the
KB offer possibilities for
opening a new attack on the
opponent's King?).
By moving part of his sales
forge into the new territory,
will he weaken the sales form
in existing territories and al-
low his competitor to gain a
stronger hold? (What attack-
ing possibilities does his op-
ponent have with the KB in its
new position?)
There IS a great similarity
between the decisions a chess
player makes and those made
by leaders in business, sci-
ence and government. With
the large, Incredibly fast
computers of the present day,
will we be able to program
the perfect chess player, the
perfect decision maker? We
may be able to some day, but
that day will likely be far in
the future. • ,
Game of the Week. Since
1970, at its annual confer-
ences, the Association for
Computing Machinery
(ACM) has sponsored chess
tournaments for computer
programs. At Atlanta,
Georgia, in 1973, 12 programs
Competed in a four round
Swiss System tournament
won by "Chess 4.0," written
at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Ill. This week's
game was annotated by
David Levy in the December,
1973 Chess Life and Review.
It is between the Tournament
winner, "Chess 4.0" and a
program named' A "Chaos."
ACM Tournament
Atlanta, Georgia
1973
"Chaos"
White
1. P -Q4
2. P-QB4
3. N-KB3
4. P -K3
5. BaP
6.0.0
7..(Q -K2
3. 114N3
9. N-83
"Chess 4.0"
Black
P -Q4
PaP
N-KB3
P -K3
P -B4• .
P-QR3
P -Q144
,B412
QN,Q2
!CROSSWORD By A. C. Gordon
ACROSS
1 - Italian river
•3 - Sorties
7 - Exist
9 - Nearsighted
11 - Uncamdly
13- Yes, in Spain
14- To vex
16 - Prefix denot-
ing "down"
17 - Thelium
(chem.)
18 - Instigator cil
the TrojimWar
19 - Comparative
40- Facial
expression
42 - Circumspect is.
• telligentsia (abb.)
43 - Honorable
Nations (abb.)
44 - Wanner
45 - Type of electric
current
46 - Mendicant
47 - Fastened
49 - Printer's
measure
50- Geological
formatjon
51 - Thus
DOWN
1 - Segment of
the day
2 - Edible
mollusk
3 - Affluent
4 - Pains
5 - Procrastinate
6 - Understood
7 - Forewarns
8 - Pronoun
10 - Work of art
(two words)
12 - Of a certain
culture
15 - Beverages
20- Charlotte
10.13-42
11. KR -K1
12. PO
13.13-N5
14. B -I32
15. QzB
16. QR41
17. P- 3
18. R-
19. Q -B6
20. RxN
21. R -B7
23. 2Leva
Q -N7
24.B -Q1
25. R -K5
26. K -N2
27. K -B3
?A. K -K2
29. K -Q3
30.K -Q4
041
PxP
Q -N3
440
Q4015
. CAP
WEN
B -N5
QR -Bl
RxR
Q -B5
ift-Q1
Match
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BETTER ENGLISH
By D. C. Williams
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED
Do not say, "If I was at-
tending the races, I sure would
place a few bets." Say, "If I
WERE attending the race's, I
SURELY would place a few
bets."
Do not say, "Various of the
members are opposed to this."
"Various" is correctly used
only as an adjective, not as a
pronoun. Say, "Various
members," or, "SEVERAL of
the members."
Distinguish between REEK
(to give off an odor) and
WREAK (to inflict). Thus: "He
REEKS of onions," and, "They
WREAKED havoc on the
enemy."
Do not say, "It is near two
years since I wrote my last
book." Say, "It is'NEARLY two
years since I wrote my LATEST
book."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Diatribe (a denunciation).
Pronounce -die-a-tribe, accent
first syllable.
• Obsequies (funeral rites).
Accent FIRST syllable, not the
second.
Amenity (the noun) , and
amenable (the adjective).
Preferably; the second syllable
of the noun rhymes with "ten,'
and the same syllable of the
adjective with "mean."
Grimace. Accent on first
syllable, preferred. .
OFTEN MISSPELLED
,
Medallion; observe the two
• "I's." BattOliOn; only one "t"
Annulled and annulling; two
"I's." Annulment; only one "1."
Eclectic; Observe the first
"ec." Ecclesiastic; "ecc."
Violoncello; -observe the
"violon," and not "violin." Slew
(killed). Slue (to swing around).
Slough (when pronounced as
"slew," a marshy pool). Innate
(inborn); twa "n's." Inane
(silly); only one initial "n."
WORD STUDY
"Use a word three times and
it is yours." Let us increase our
vocabulary by mastering one
word each day. Words for this
PURVEYOR; a supplier;
one who provides. (Accent
second syllable). "He was a
purveyor of bad news."
AMBIVALENT; uncertain
or fluctuating. "We were unable
to elitt any definite Com-
mitment fiiim this ambivalent
fellow."
OBTRUDE; to impose; to
force. "One should, not obtrude
-Mei opinions upen others."
INGENUOUS; open; frank;
candid. (Pronounce in-jen-yu-
us, accent second syllable).
"Her innocent, ingenuous
manner impressed us."
ILLUSORY; deceptive;
unreal; misleading. "We were
thankful to discover that our
worries were only Illusory
products of our Imagination."
-,.• en, r -t9, en,
22 Weight of
EA*
23- flugrytnzect
25 - Asiatic
incamtalmr
27- Type of wood
28 - Greek letter
29 - Ancient Roman
statesman
30- Gritty
33- Majestic
35 - *assumes
96 - Droop
38- Tears
39 - Roth= 1.0L
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MEM n MMMRIP
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WUNW UUL UNOU
LJJWWILMJA WM
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hAJIMPAM
UV/ MUM! UM
23 - Alma
24 - Greets
26 - Optic
inflammation
27- Obstruct
31 - Scene of World
War II battle
32 - Decline
34 - Summits
36 - Stylish
37 - Valleys
40 - Mineral
springs
41 - Time periods
46 - Exist
48 - Perform
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Bon Accord Farm
(Continued from front page)
their self-control.
It was discovered that resi-
dents resented the idea of having
a staff member on night duty and
regarded themselves as having a
"guard". The night staffer has
been removed and the residents
are left on their own in the_even-
ings and on the weekends. They
are encouraged to take on re-
sponsibility.
• Ground Rules
As with any group living or
working together or both, a set of
ground rules must be laid out.
The residents and staff at Bon
Accord consider themselves a
small community and have set up\
a democratic government sys-
tem. This community govern-
ment consists • of a. general
assembly of all staff and resident
• members who elect the c.hairmen
of the committees responsible to
it, An executive committee com-
prising these chairmen and two
staff representatives appoints the
committee members...
These committees come under
the headings or admissions and
discharges, evaluations of mem-
bers' progress, handling conflicts
between workers and super-
visors, controlling intoxicated
behaviour, planning and im-
plementing the social and recrea-
tional activities and deciding on
rewards and punishments for
bebairtatir.
•Residence supervision is bani
dled by senior residents and an
conflicts over their duties are
handled by their government.
The men have also developed a
community manifesto known as
the Bon Accord Manifesto. Each
man signs his name to it when he
enters the farm's community.
THE BON ACCORD
MANIFESTO
4 . we the undersigned mem-
bers declare the following rights,
obligations, freedoms and
responsibilities as integral to
membership in this community."
1. Every Member shallhave
the freedom to express his indivi-
dual opinion and to influence the
government of this community.
In particular, he shall have the
right to vote.
2. Every member shall have
the obligation to share. in
disciplining the community's life
so that decent order may be
maintained.
3. Every member shall have
the right to expect that tbe com-
munity will assist him t� reach
the maximum level of his per -r
sonal ability as it .is consistent
with the community's objectives.
4. Every member shall have
the right to receive justice for
himself and the responsibility to
assure that justice is given to
others. The right of appeal and
right to question judgments made
on other members are essential
to Bon Accord.
5. Every member shall have
the freedom to be accepted as an
individual person with his own
self-identity. The legal • and
diagnostic desciptiOlis •and the
stereotyped roles and categories
which are or pay at any time
have been apPlied to him .shall
not be the primary basis of
H. GORDON
GREEN
I have been complaining rather
bitterly of late about the profes-
sional change -makers that our
governments seem to be hiring in
ever increasing numbers these
days. The restless bureaucrats
who are forever revising ttax
forms for. instance. The people
who suddenly decide that the
numbers on our highways must
all be changed, now that we've all
become familiar with them. The
people who, take it upon them-
selves to exterminate local school
boards and put in their place
supet duper district boards that
are as far away as God and
almost as powerful. -
The prime example • at the
moment of our restless bureau-
cracy at work is of course the
proposed metrification program.
But this incessant plystnt of
change just to be different is not
confined to those employees ot.,_
Ilie-gavenTrnent-‘'ilthe-szenr-to
have nothing better- to do. It is
equally irritating in the business
world. Only yesterday I walked
out of a supermarket simply be-
cause the item I had rushed in to
buy wasn't in its accustomed
place. I wanted a pack of "blind
robins"--Ismoked herring to you
cultured people -and they
weren't where they were sup-
posed to be. The manager had
placed them two aisles away. 1
might have forgiven him for that
had it not been for the fact that
this was the third time in the past
year when his propensity for
moving things had required an
expedition to locate them.
Even such a staid institution as
a bank seems to think that, it too
must now innovate. In the larger
banks at least, you can no longer
wait for the cute little teller who
knows you; you must wait in line
and then when your turn comes
you go to whichever teller is
ready to talk to you.
But one thing I never thought
would change is the venerable
tradition of placing the maker's
label at the back of whatever you
have to wear. If you want to
check the collar size of a shirt, for
instance, you find the label at the
back. If you happen to be old-,
fashioned enough to wear a hat
and you can't always be sure
which part of the hat should point
front, you merely find the label,
and that's the back of the hat.
Don't tell me it's not impor-
tant! Just about the first thing a
mother will do when she wants to.
teach a young lad to dress him-
self is to know which part of his
BVD's is front, and which doesn't
matter so much. "If you will just
remember that the label goes at
the back, Junior, the fly will
always be up front where it be-
longs! And you won't have to
stand there crying and jiggling
like that!"
Would you believe it? The
restless people have even
changed the location of the label
on kids' underpants? Sears, at
least, puts it alongside the leg.
word with the designer who had
the courage and the genitis to
make a momentous change like
that. On'second thought, he's
probably left Sears by now and
gone into the civil seritice.
Teacher's gift
was 'a blast'
GLEMSPORD, England -
Graham Flynn, 12 years old,
doesn't bring such prosaic
gifts as apples to his teacher
- he presented Michael
Purcell with a four -inch live
bomb Instead.
Graham found the bomb in
a warthne airfield near his
home and thought it might in-
terest MB teacher - the bomb
ram exploded by army
experts.
NO ONIONS/
According to historians, the
ctlgina onion soup was made
wIth leeka rather than onions
-the soup goes back to the
dawn of history and onions
°denoted in Persia only
4,000 years ago..
relationship within Bon Accord.
6. Every member has the
potential freedom to change his
behaviour and learn a new way of
life. We do not accept a fatalistic
viewpoint that we are unalter-
ably fixed in a particular cycle of
behaviour.
7. Every member shall have
the right and obligation to work
for his livelihood. We do not want
to be kept in a state of depend-
ence on welfare charity. We ack-
nowledge our obligation to the
people of the Province of Ontario
to manage Hon Accord's affairs
and resources efficiently in the
interests of achieving an
•economically viable community.
In testimony of these con-
victions, in the belief that they
are a faithful expression of the
highest ideals of former mem-
bers, and in the hope that future
members will honour them in -
•work and action we hereto affix
our signatures. ,
0-0-o
• Four Phases
All this responsibility is de-
signed to change the behavioural
patterns of the residents. The
men are graded in areas accord-
ing to their social -recreational;
political and drug, alcohol
behaviour. Mr. Skinner pointed
out that the men go through a
total of four phases before they
are considered ready to face
society.
•:-.7Phatei One ustiblly-= lasts a.
month. In this time the man does
not have drinking rights. He is
expected to serve on a committee
and shares a bedroom with one or
two others. His Wage is at the '
lowest level. If the resident shows
that he can cope with the restric-
tions in phase one, he proceeds to
Phase two. •
In phase two the resident will
make- his own medical appoint-
ments when necessarY, serve as
chairman on a emmnittee and
will learn to control his alcohol
consumption. This phase lasts
anywhere from two to 10 weeks.
In phase three the resident is
• considered as a leader in the
•community. He carries out resi-
dent supervision duties, may
serve as a shop foreman and
makes friends outside the farm
and joins in outside activities.
In phase four the resident pre-
pares to leave the community.
Mr. Skinner said that this may be
done very gradually depending
on the resident. The man may get
a job outside of the farm and still
live there or vice versa, making
the break away easier.
The average age of the appli-
cants is around 42. About 70 per
cent of the men wbo apply to Bon
Accord have first been to a del.
toxication centre. They have
come to Bon Accord strictly of
their own free will. '
The men fill out forms giving
personal information and go
through a series of questions di-
rected at them both by the staff
and senior residents. If they are
Vetri-e-r- tir-tra-W4-
week trial period.
Bon Accord Farm is merely a
Top Wages -• Excellent Benefits
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ACROSS
1 - Italian river
•3 - Sorties
7 - Exist
9 - Nearsighted
11 - Uncamdly
13- Yes, in Spain
14- To vex
16 - Prefix denot-
ing "down"
17 - Thelium
(chem.)
18 - Instigator cil
the TrojimWar
19 - Comparative
40- Facial
expression
42 - Circumspect is.
• telligentsia (abb.)
43 - Honorable
Nations (abb.)
44 - Wanner
45 - Type of electric
current
46 - Mendicant
47 - Fastened
49 - Printer's
measure
50- Geological
formatjon
51 - Thus
DOWN
1 - Segment of
the day
2 - Edible
mollusk
3 - Affluent
4 - Pains
5 - Procrastinate
6 - Understood
7 - Forewarns
8 - Pronoun
10 - Work of art
(two words)
12 - Of a certain
culture
15 - Beverages
20- Charlotte
10.13-42
11. KR -K1
12. PO
13.13-N5
14. B -I32
15. QzB
16. QR41
17. P- 3
18. R-
19. Q -B6
20. RxN
21. R -B7
23. 2Leva
Q -N7
24.B -Q1
25. R -K5
26. K -N2
27. K -B3
?A. K -K2
29. K -Q3
30.K -Q4
041
PxP
Q -N3
440
Q4015
. CAP
WEN
B -N5
QR -Bl
RxR
Q -B5
ift-Q1
Match
Q-B8di
Q-Rilch
Brach
Q-B8ch
Q-85znate
thuMthctiuRe t9.Prov
iUouf t010.0114
iots:thMt 'they cer?
hsve 14- the '40,7',
- . .
'CANAL,'
. .
PORESE 3232422
Opportunify to teA. arn a ski
will train yo.10:
.u. to become • .. .
'EXTRUDER OPERA
WORKSHOP -This is lust one section of the large furniture factory workshop located at
Bon Accord Farm in Elora.
BETTER ENGLISH
By D. C. Williams
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED
Do not say, "If I was at-
tending the races, I sure would
place a few bets." Say, "If I
WERE attending the race's, I
SURELY would place a few
bets."
Do not say, "Various of the
members are opposed to this."
"Various" is correctly used
only as an adjective, not as a
pronoun. Say, "Various
members," or, "SEVERAL of
the members."
Distinguish between REEK
(to give off an odor) and
WREAK (to inflict). Thus: "He
REEKS of onions," and, "They
WREAKED havoc on the
enemy."
Do not say, "It is near two
years since I wrote my last
book." Say, "It is'NEARLY two
years since I wrote my LATEST
book."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Diatribe (a denunciation).
Pronounce -die-a-tribe, accent
first syllable.
• Obsequies (funeral rites).
Accent FIRST syllable, not the
second.
Amenity (the noun) , and
amenable (the adjective).
Preferably; the second syllable
of the noun rhymes with "ten,'
and the same syllable of the
adjective with "mean."
Grimace. Accent on first
syllable, preferred. .
OFTEN MISSPELLED
,
Medallion; observe the two
• "I's." BattOliOn; only one "t"
Annulled and annulling; two
"I's." Annulment; only one "1."
Eclectic; Observe the first
"ec." Ecclesiastic; "ecc."
Violoncello; -observe the
"violon," and not "violin." Slew
(killed). Slue (to swing around).
Slough (when pronounced as
"slew," a marshy pool). Innate
(inborn); twa "n's." Inane
(silly); only one initial "n."
WORD STUDY
"Use a word three times and
it is yours." Let us increase our
vocabulary by mastering one
word each day. Words for this
PURVEYOR; a supplier;
one who provides. (Accent
second syllable). "He was a
purveyor of bad news."
AMBIVALENT; uncertain
or fluctuating. "We were unable
to elitt any definite Com-
mitment fiiim this ambivalent
fellow."
OBTRUDE; to impose; to
force. "One should, not obtrude
-Mei opinions upen others."
INGENUOUS; open; frank;
candid. (Pronounce in-jen-yu-
us, accent second syllable).
"Her innocent, ingenuous
manner impressed us."
ILLUSORY; deceptive;
unreal; misleading. "We were
thankful to discover that our
worries were only Illusory
products of our Imagination."
-,.• en, r -t9, en,
22 Weight of
EA*
23- flugrytnzect
25 - Asiatic
incamtalmr
27- Type of wood
28 - Greek letter
29 - Ancient Roman
statesman
30- Gritty
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Bon Accord Farm
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their self-control.
It was discovered that resi-
dents resented the idea of having
a staff member on night duty and
regarded themselves as having a
"guard". The night staffer has
been removed and the residents
are left on their own in the_even-
ings and on the weekends. They
are encouraged to take on re-
sponsibility.
• Ground Rules
As with any group living or
working together or both, a set of
ground rules must be laid out.
The residents and staff at Bon
Accord consider themselves a
small community and have set up\
a democratic government sys-
tem. This community govern-
ment consists • of a. general
assembly of all staff and resident
• members who elect the c.hairmen
of the committees responsible to
it, An executive committee com-
prising these chairmen and two
staff representatives appoints the
committee members...
These committees come under
the headings or admissions and
discharges, evaluations of mem-
bers' progress, handling conflicts
between workers and super-
visors, controlling intoxicated
behaviour, planning and im-
plementing the social and recrea-
tional activities and deciding on
rewards and punishments for
bebairtatir.
•Residence supervision is bani
dled by senior residents and an
conflicts over their duties are
handled by their government.
The men have also developed a
community manifesto known as
the Bon Accord Manifesto. Each
man signs his name to it when he
enters the farm's community.
THE BON ACCORD
MANIFESTO
4 . we the undersigned mem-
bers declare the following rights,
obligations, freedoms and
responsibilities as integral to
membership in this community."
1. Every Member shallhave
the freedom to express his indivi-
dual opinion and to influence the
government of this community.
In particular, he shall have the
right to vote.
2. Every member shall have
the obligation to share. in
disciplining the community's life
so that decent order may be
maintained.
3. Every member shall have
the right to expect that tbe com-
munity will assist him t� reach
the maximum level of his per -r
sonal ability as it .is consistent
with the community's objectives.
4. Every member shall have
the right to receive justice for
himself and the responsibility to
assure that justice is given to
others. The right of appeal and
right to question judgments made
on other members are essential
to Bon Accord.
5. Every member shall have
the freedom to be accepted as an
individual person with his own
self-identity. The legal • and
diagnostic desciptiOlis •and the
stereotyped roles and categories
which are or pay at any time
have been apPlied to him .shall
not be the primary basis of
H. GORDON
GREEN
I have been complaining rather
bitterly of late about the profes-
sional change -makers that our
governments seem to be hiring in
ever increasing numbers these
days. The restless bureaucrats
who are forever revising ttax
forms for. instance. The people
who suddenly decide that the
numbers on our highways must
all be changed, now that we've all
become familiar with them. The
people who, take it upon them-
selves to exterminate local school
boards and put in their place
supet duper district boards that
are as far away as God and
almost as powerful. -
The prime example • at the
moment of our restless bureau-
cracy at work is of course the
proposed metrification program.
But this incessant plystnt of
change just to be different is not
confined to those employees ot.,_
Ilie-gavenTrnent-‘'ilthe-szenr-to
have nothing better- to do. It is
equally irritating in the business
world. Only yesterday I walked
out of a supermarket simply be-
cause the item I had rushed in to
buy wasn't in its accustomed
place. I wanted a pack of "blind
robins"--Ismoked herring to you
cultured people -and they
weren't where they were sup-
posed to be. The manager had
placed them two aisles away. 1
might have forgiven him for that
had it not been for the fact that
this was the third time in the past
year when his propensity for
moving things had required an
expedition to locate them.
Even such a staid institution as
a bank seems to think that, it too
must now innovate. In the larger
banks at least, you can no longer
wait for the cute little teller who
knows you; you must wait in line
and then when your turn comes
you go to whichever teller is
ready to talk to you.
But one thing I never thought
would change is the venerable
tradition of placing the maker's
label at the back of whatever you
have to wear. If you want to
check the collar size of a shirt, for
instance, you find the label at the
back. If you happen to be old-,
fashioned enough to wear a hat
and you can't always be sure
which part of the hat should point
front, you merely find the label,
and that's the back of the hat.
Don't tell me it's not impor-
tant! Just about the first thing a
mother will do when she wants to.
teach a young lad to dress him-
self is to know which part of his
BVD's is front, and which doesn't
matter so much. "If you will just
remember that the label goes at
the back, Junior, the fly will
always be up front where it be-
longs! And you won't have to
stand there crying and jiggling
like that!"
Would you believe it? The
restless people have even
changed the location of the label
on kids' underpants? Sears, at
least, puts it alongside the leg.
word with the designer who had
the courage and the genitis to
make a momentous change like
that. On'second thought, he's
probably left Sears by now and
gone into the civil seritice.
Teacher's gift
was 'a blast'
GLEMSPORD, England -
Graham Flynn, 12 years old,
doesn't bring such prosaic
gifts as apples to his teacher
- he presented Michael
Purcell with a four -inch live
bomb Instead.
Graham found the bomb in
a warthne airfield near his
home and thought it might in-
terest MB teacher - the bomb
ram exploded by army
experts.
NO ONIONS/
According to historians, the
ctlgina onion soup was made
wIth leeka rather than onions
-the soup goes back to the
dawn of history and onions
°denoted in Persia only
4,000 years ago..
relationship within Bon Accord.
6. Every member has the
potential freedom to change his
behaviour and learn a new way of
life. We do not accept a fatalistic
viewpoint that we are unalter-
ably fixed in a particular cycle of
behaviour.
7. Every member shall have
the right and obligation to work
for his livelihood. We do not want
to be kept in a state of depend-
ence on welfare charity. We ack-
nowledge our obligation to the
people of the Province of Ontario
to manage Hon Accord's affairs
and resources efficiently in the
interests of achieving an
•economically viable community.
In testimony of these con-
victions, in the belief that they
are a faithful expression of the
highest ideals of former mem-
bers, and in the hope that future
members will honour them in -
•work and action we hereto affix
our signatures. ,
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• Four Phases
All this responsibility is de-
signed to change the behavioural
patterns of the residents. The
men are graded in areas accord-
ing to their social -recreational;
political and drug, alcohol
behaviour. Mr. Skinner pointed
out that the men go through a
total of four phases before they
are considered ready to face
society.
•:-.7Phatei One ustiblly-= lasts a.
month. In this time the man does
not have drinking rights. He is
expected to serve on a committee
and shares a bedroom with one or
two others. His Wage is at the '
lowest level. If the resident shows
that he can cope with the restric-
tions in phase one, he proceeds to
Phase two. •
In phase two the resident will
make- his own medical appoint-
ments when necessarY, serve as
chairman on a emmnittee and
will learn to control his alcohol
consumption. This phase lasts
anywhere from two to 10 weeks.
In phase three the resident is
• considered as a leader in the
•community. He carries out resi-
dent supervision duties, may
serve as a shop foreman and
makes friends outside the farm
and joins in outside activities.
In phase four the resident pre-
pares to leave the community.
Mr. Skinner said that this may be
done very gradually depending
on the resident. The man may get
a job outside of the farm and still
live there or vice versa, making
the break away easier.
The average age of the appli-
cants is around 42. About 70 per
cent of the men wbo apply to Bon
Accord have first been to a del.
toxication centre. They have
come to Bon Accord strictly of
their own free will. '
The men fill out forms giving
personal information and go
through a series of questions di-
rected at them both by the staff
and senior residents. If they are
Vetri-e-r- tir-tra-W4-
week trial period.
Bon Accord Farm is merely a
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