The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-09, Page 166A GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9,1969
Man opens human zoo
Teenage drag racers, suburban
* housewives with an eye for the
milkman, the clerk who insults
his boss, the businessman who
pinches his secretary -- all suffer
from the malaise of the
consumer society: life is too
easy.
At least, that's what Desmond
Morris, the zoologist who made
a fortune by comparing men and
women to monkeys in The
Naked Ape, says in his latest
man -as -an -animal book.
Called The Human Zoo (Clark
Irvin, $6.95) it isa logical sequel
to Dr. Morris' argument that we
are all hairless apes. In it, he
claims the human zoo is the city,
and in a pre -publication extract
published in the October
Maclean's Magazine Dr. Morris
explains that the old principle of
the survival of the fittest has
given way to what, he calls The
Stimulus Struggle.
He says that in a society
where man no longer needs to
devote all his time and energy to
staying alive, fed and housed, we
all have to seek artificial
stimulus to make life interesting.
The prize in this twentieth
century version of the survival of
the fittest is not life, but
happiness, perhaps even sanity.
The , winners have found the
happy medium between
under -and -over stimulation. The
losers are the under stimulated
and the over stimulated.
Lacking stimulation, we find
it by undue absorption in work
work which is often
unnecessary — and by hobbies
and avocations. --The obsessive
gardener, the devoted ballroom
dancer,.or the passionate hockey
fan are all probably
under -stimulated at work. .•
Writes Dr. Morris in
Maclean's; "Every so often it
suddenly seems to the
under -stimulated that his or her
compensating , activity is "really
rather meaningless. What really
is the• point of rearranging the
furniture, or collecting stamps,
or entering the dog for another
show?
fi
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"One solution is�av_ariation of
the Stimulus Struggle called
Tempting Survival. The
disillusioned teenager, instead of
throwing a ball on a playing
field, can throw it through a
plate . glass window. The
disillusioned housewife, instead
-of stroking the dog, can stroke
the milkman. The disillusioned
businessman, instead of stripping
down the engine of his car, c,n
strip down his secretary.
"In no time at all the
individual is involved in the true
survival struggle of fighting for
his social life."
The Stimulus Struggle, as Dr.
Morris says, can_ be a dangerous
game.
Parade
BY BRIAN MARKSON
Children on the sidewalk squat
A child upon a shoulder top
Children skipping up the street
A child sucking a candy sweet
Children waving flags galore
A child shouting till his throat
is sore -
Now the brass band can be heard
Concerted movement from
the curb
Eyes aglow in one direction
Breathing deep anticipation
Then the band is here at last.
Thumping cymbals sounding
brass
Here's a clown on bicycle
Another like an icicle
There's Snow White and Seven
Dwarfs
A stern policeman on a horse.
Now the woman in her shoe
Her children laugh — do you
— do you
Moby Dick his tail awag
Another band repleat with
flag
Arajorettes all stepping out
Pluto with a twitching snout
Trumpeters go wheeling by
Then the -children heave a sigh
A moments hush, a little pause
And there he is, it's Santa
Claus.
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Thanksgiving- Decorations
Thanksgiving Day is almost
upon us again, and as on
November 6th 1879, which by
proclamation of Sir John A.
Macdonald was the first
appointed ° "day of General
Thanksgiving to Almighty God
for the bountiful harvest with
which Canada has been blessed,"
families and friends will be
gathering for the traditional
feast of turkey with home-made
crabapple jelly or cranberry
sauce, and squash with other
vegetables, followed by pumpkin
pie, whipped cream and maple
syrup.
For your table centrepiece
this year, the • Florists'
Transworld Delivery Association
(FTD) suggests that you
combine the flowers of autumn
yellow and orange marigolds,
or bronze, red and yellow
chrysanthemums; with the
berries of bittersweet and dried
Physalis (Chinese lanterns),, and
arrange around the base some
yellow pears and polished red
apples, or some of the decorative
small squashes which are
BY JANE EMBER
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available at this time.
Alternatively, for the hostess
whose color scheme is not happy
with reds and yellows, FTD
florists advise the use °of pink,
white and magve asters, together
with Michaelmas claiSies. Piles of
luscious black grapes heaped
around the base supply the
Thanksgiving theme.
Some households are reviving
the old custom of welcoming
their guests by hanging several
ears of Indian corn on the front
door. The custom
commemorated the sustenance
given by the Indians to the
Pilgrim Fathers during that first
winter of 1620-1621 spent by
the white man in North -
America. It was after tfieir first
harvest that the Pilgrim. Fathers
invited their Indian friends to
share the original Thanksgiving
dinner in 162.1.
The three Eastern Seaboard
colonies of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island, which remained loyal to
the British Crown during the
American Revolution, continued
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of Thanksgiving.
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Ours is an industrialised
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forget that without the land and
its fruits there could be nothing.
It is good that we still have one
day setaside in the year to
remind us to be grateful for the
bounty of the earth,' for the
work of the men who sowed the
seeds and harvested the crops,
and above all, for the gift of life
itself.
October
food outlook • .Business Dir•ctory
Beef: Prices can beexpected
to show little change.
Pork: Prices may weaken
somewhat with increased
supplies.
Eggs: Supplies will increase
but prices will be seasonally
high.
Poultry Meat: Supplies of
broiler chicken will be plentiful,
prices may be lower. Turkeys of
all weights will be in adequate
supply at firm to possibly higher
prices.
Apples: Heavy supplies with
weakening prices.
Pears: A large crop and lower
prices are in prospect.
Table Grapes and Cranberries:
Supplies will be heavy in the
East, with. lower prices. Western
supplies will b'e lighter and prices
stronger.
Potatoes: Larger supplies are
expected with weaker prices.
Onions: Supplies lighter with
stronger prices.
Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts,
.Rutabagas, Pumpkin and
Squash: In plentiful supplies at
seasonally Iaw prices.
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1968 amounted to about 46
million pounds, nearly double
the total of a year earlier.
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