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new life in canacia and through
hard work (including adapting to
the very difficult Imperial Sys- .
tele) and an interest in our new
community became part of this
beautiful country. Anyway .. .
. , . It's the metric system that
needs defending now. I like to
state at this point that there is not
now or ever will be a law com-
pelling 'B. Smiley to 'change to
Celsius or adapt the metric
system. He -simply is left be ' d
and with an outlook on life e
his, it would be no, great loss: A
hot day of 35 degrees C is just as
sweltering as 95 degrees F and
water freezes both at 0 degrees C
and 32 degrees F. So why should
we not continue to start a conver-
sation about the heat or the cold?
Idioms like the ones mentioned
in his article do not add a thing to
the Canadian heritage nor de
they contribute to our future. To
use them as arguments against
the inevitable introduction to the
metric system is simply stupid.
To rebattle with regards to his re-
marks about, quote, "dull fac-
simile of all those other dull
nations", I would like to take him
to Europe, Asia or Africa and
teach him manners.
The statement made by B.S.
"metric maniacs insist that
metric is more accurate" is just
what the initials indicate.
The following are some facts
about the Systeme International
d'Unites or SI for short. ft not
only has scientific precision, SI is
a decimal system based on the
number 10 and therefore easily
understood and manipulated. It
will greatly reduce the time and
efforts currently spent in class-
rooms, memorizing the intrica-
cies of the Imperial Measuring
System. The SI system will
enable the manufacturers to in-
novate new ideas, cut production
costs and reduce tooling expendi-
tures because it brings obvious
economic advantages in its
simple structure such as world-
wide compatability, access to de-
veloped standards, rationaliza-
tion of sizes (example: tooth-
paste—the Imperial System had
28 sizes; Sr units -4 (four) types
and products as well as direct
relations to scientific approaches
and methods. Export markets
are more easily accessible thus
raising the GNP output and in
turn benefit all Canadians.
Fred Moser
510 Main Street West
Listowel, Ontario.
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chalk -like substance. In the late
20's one enterprising firm even
sold a medicated t i t
was guaranteed to keep -the l.ge
away.
I guess we must have .been
really poor at -o r house because
we often used dour knobs—thee
whiteporcelain ones especially. I
seem to remember that one year
we had nothing better to put in
the nest but a smooth white stone,
and if the hens" took any note of -
the difference they never let on.
But whatever its chemistry, the
original -nest -egg was essentially
an empty sham, And in spite of
the saintliness of the wonderful
women who were then in charge
of the nation's hens, the basic
idea of the nest -egg was to lie to
the hen. Mother put the dummy
egg where she wanted a hen to
lay a real one. The dummy egg
was not only a snare and a delu-
sion but it was also calculated to
shame a hen into laying. It was
supposed to say something like
this to her: "See! Everybody else
is doing it! Go thou and do like-
wise!"
Now I have grave doubts about
whether or not the hen was fooled
by this deception and thereby
coaxed into pooping out that first
henfruit any sooner, but that
dummy egg at least insured that
when the hen did begin to lay, she
would put her egg in the same
nest.
But whatever its accomplish-
ments, the original nest -egg was
essentially a lie. Why then has the
word "nest -egg" now come to
mean something quite worthy br
noble?' Having "a nest -egg
tucked away somewhere" is
indeed certain proof of integrity
and .good citizenship.
Who was that intellectual who
first took "nest -egg" out of the
henhouse and worked it into one
of the most common idioms of our
1pnguage? Seems to me he was
probably just another one of
these learned people who talk so
wisely about farming though theY
wouldn't know a cockerel from a
capon, or which end of a cow gets
up first.
Dear Sir, -
In the Crossroads section of
The Advance Times paper this
week Bill Smiley's column "It's
Metric Madness" expresses
exactly my busband's and my .
feelings. Why should we have this
metric and celsius business
thrust upon us without even being
asked? It is going to cost thous-
ands of dollars to change ma-
chines, cash registers and much
more such equipment: It is fool'-
ish, (putting it mildly) and Bill
Smiley has said it all much better
than we can, but we too are 100
per cent' against metric and cel-
sius.
We will not know true measure-
ment, or if we are getting what
we are paying for! We have lived
with degrees Fah. and lbs. for
years—why cannot small minori-
ties learn our systems instead of
us having to learn theirs.
Bill Smiley said to write our
Editor if we agreed with him and
we most certainly do!
Two Canadians
Dorothy M. Townsend
Jack Townsend
P.S.
To further my wife's
statement, I don't think that the
average person visualizes how
far we have to go on the Metric
System. This eventually would
mean a complete retooling of all
machine products also and at
what Eost?
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hurts frees too
Air pollution interferes
with the food -producing.
capabilities of trees, ' often
-a causing them to lose their
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'yThe pollutants that gen
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I wonder why antique collect-
ors never seem to collect nest -
eggs.
I am not referring to a secret
savings account, of course, or a
sock full of thousand dollar bills
hid under the mattress, but of the
honest -to -goodness henhouse
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as I am, you'll remember it very
well. It was the dummy egg
Mother used to place in every
nest box in the spring of the year,
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spring such as this one when the
hens were in no mood to swing
into production.
Some of these dummy eggs
were of china and quite beautiful.
Others were made of a plain,
osoroad
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