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Clinton News-Record, 1983-03-09, Page 4AR1;) �• PAGE 4 --CL 1 fro NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, Stests ..: Batg et PAL Deus &B. CBBeecae. Bvoe®v4ae. Germ. MIS BLS. Tea.; SSI-5::JE. - BlssB;eaeA®®etas & e®: Bvt. C,v,¢ese - '10.!18+ parol yes, A5 tans sae - •SS.% pma ®aria BB ,ro r.igar3k5.r96 ee:5 e1349 ,,,, ®mat as9BBeo er-sdst eBso petsoaaBB a SSW dbo 6'leraav@'csettrxt Ittsensensetteta , ISAS aravem. 10ewe.Retnertg. Chinn ta96 13 1QAa1B a_sse6 Ma. Calms. Memo Sam. ics.,azetssl an MB. Bence ysem e.BS8. corratar flMq THE INT! STAN HOWARD MILLEN - Nnbilshse. S 1 L!1Y 1Uicat61E11: - Editor GARY HAt%T - dldvertissirlg N9®Aegis MARY Atilt HOt,LEMEIECEG - Office deer!®ger A MEMBER MEMBER Otaplreq odvortlolree sero, w,,o,u,o en regeaoet. AnN for Bore Coad tmo- 11 o64o¢tive Oat. 1. 1®01 The key is in our hands The following editorial was written by Stanley Burke, publisher of The Nanaimo .C.) Times and well-known as a former national news broadcaster: Canada desperately needs a new spirit and it must come from ordinary people. What con we do to create it? What can we do to demand responsibility from politicians and an end to party bickering at a time of crisis? What can we do to prevent one group attempting to better its position at the expense of others? Can we recognize that we are all responsible for this mess because we hove all been wildly extravagant? We look for scapegoats and they are easy to find — the federal government's deficit, its policies of economic nationalism which have bankrupted one of the strongest and richest nations in the world. But who asked for their spending? Who gleefully supported their nationalism? We did. We make scapegoats out of the unions; the companies which got fat and lazy; the bureaucrats who built indexed empires at public expense. No, we all shore the blame and the only thong which matters now is how we get out. We got into it together and now, if we work together, we will gradually get out. However, if we continue to quarrel and if some groups seek to advance themselves while others suffer, then our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We will forgive unions for past excesses, for example, but we should not forgive strikes which seek to improve workers' positions at the expense of others. Now is the time when we should all take less and this includes the managers of the labor unions ust as it should include government and business managers. We need a new sense of reality in Canada and we need to recognize, in par- ticular, that governments can only do,.so much for us. For too long we have placed impossible demands on them and abdicated our own responsibilities. i{ed Cross, always t ere y E.D. Fi,:gland Most people have heard of the "Geneva Convention" rules which apply to various situations especially in war and give protection to all participants. The Geneva Convention and the Red Cross have a common historical base. In 1864 as a result of actions of Henry Durant of Switzerland the first Geneva Convention was signed. It was a convention for neutrality of the wounded in the field, of the personal ten- ding of them, of neutrality of vehicles conveying them such as ambulances and of buildings housing them. The emblem of neutrality ac- cepted by the nations signing these rules was the Red Cross on a white background. National relief societies were then organized to operate under the same ban- ner and so the 'Red Cross' Societies were born. This commitment of a humanitarian law in armed conflict was the cornerstone of the Red Cross movement. By 1869 national societies had extended their mandate to include national disasters epidemics, floods, earth- quakes and avalanches. The Red Cross Societies have an overall objective, the improvement of health, the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of suffer- ing throughout the world. The members of the inter- national committee of the Red Cross are heirs to the work begun by Henry Durant in the field of Inter- national humanitarian law for over 111 years. They have worked quietly and tirelessly to implement and extend this law in areas of armed conflict. Their only weapon is moral persuasion. It has no legal status other than that of a neutral intermediary as assigned by the Geneva Con- vention. Yet since 1864, the committee has convinced 140 nations to sign this interna- tional treaty. The Red Cross sign, be it on the coat of a volunteer worker ambulance or relief station or a building housing the wounded in times of con- flict, means immunity from enemy fire. Delegates for relief opera- tions are chosen from coun- tries neutral to the conflict status at all times. The work of the Red Cross goes on at all levels. Whether it be negotiating with chiefs of State, bringing relief to the injured or those im- prisoned in war time, help- ing to re -build a country after natural disaster, the Red Cross is there. It finds missing persons. It is the only organization allowed into prisoner of war camps with food parcels for the ill -fed in times of war. Those of us who remember World War II know it well. The Red Cross helps whenever or wherever it is called upon to provide help regardless of cost. Hundreds of thousands of volunteer manpower go into Red Cross Relief efforts. But hundreds of thousands of dollars, Swiss francs, rupees, or pesos are needed too. Red Cross has the will and it has the Geneva Conven- tion and founding prin- ciples. The firm basis for such work must be the moral support of each and every thinking human being. In these times of chaos, of world disasters, conflict among nations, the Red Cross is needed more and more. The work increases steadily - more and more countries are calling for help and receiving it regardless of race or creed. May the time never come when the Red Cross resources fail because we failed them. Spring has sprung by Rod Hilts An odd winter Random thoughts on a dreary March day, with a terrible head -cold, about the fourth this winter. About which many people have been most unhappy. For ski and snowmobtle'en- thusiasts, ski resort operators, ice fishermen and snowplow owners, this winter has been the pits. For people who get sick to death of shove.' i .g snow, of driving in blizzards, of wading to the thighs through snow -banks to get to work, this winter has been a boon. I'm in the second category, but I'm not raving about this particular open winter. I don't like bitter cold, and I detest battling snow. However, it's been a dreary winter. Too much rain, mud, ice; too little sun. Dull day after d !l day makes Jack a dull tool, and even the winter worry -wart would like to see a bit of sunshine. It's also been a rotten winter for the health. I don't know whether the wild sw- ings of temperature have anything to do with anything, but I've never seen so many people so lingeringly ill with 'flu and colds. Seems that a bright, cold crispy winter is better suited to the Canadian physique than the kind of hermaphrodite we've been through this year. Besides the head, it's been a tough winter on the other end, because of freez- ing rain. I wonder how many Canadians busted their bums this winter, slipping on ice. Recently, I slithered out the back door, skidded down the back steps, and went on hands and knees to the car. Arrived at the school parking lot, which was like a skating rink, and almost wiped out a cou- ple of cars when I tried to stop. Crept from car to school like ancient Chinese coolie. Score for the ,1l.. y was: one teacher with badly broken wrist, one teacher with badly wrenched :' . ck, one teacher's wife with ba. ly bent head. Didn't mind the broken wrist. It was only a guidance teacher. But I was fed up with the rest. The wrenched 'B,.,ck belonged to one of my English teachers, and I had two missing already. He'd come down his (unsalted) front steps, taken a flier, and landed on his not inconsiderable back. Thought he'd shake off the pain and shock, drove pis daughter to school, and by tl is time was ready to head for the hospital. Had just checked in to tell the great white sahibs of his inten- tions, when he got a phone call saying his wife had gone down their steps (still un- salted) in similar fashion, knocking her kaleido Beneath that gruff exterior was a heart of gold, a generous spirit and a modest man. So many of us will miss Stewart Mid- dleton. He was a man of many talents and interests and a great friend to Bayfield, Clinton and Middleton. For Stewart these words by William Wordsworth hold true - "That best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless unremembered acts, Of kindness and of love." + + 4 - We can learn so much from other people wiser than ourselves. Eleanor Roosevelt was one such lady. How much better off we would be if we lived by her philosphy of life. Mrs. Roosevelt believed that everyone should always have a worthwhile project. We're smarter now, census shows A snap -shot of Ontario taken during the 1981 Census reveals that we are more highly educated than ever before. More and more we are finding ourselves in occupations and industries which demand new skills and more education. Figures from the 1981 Census released March 1 by Statistics Canada show that four out off five Ontarians 15 years of age and over have attended secondary school or higher and one-third of Ontario residents have some post -secondary education. in 1971, the ratio of those with less than Grade 8 to those with a university degree was 5.5:1. in 1981, this education gap had decreased to 2.2:1 In 1971, 5.3 percent of Ontario's residents had a unlvexality degree and this increased to nine percent by 1';r1. Alberta was the only province to surpass Ontario, with 9.6 percent of its population 15 years of age and over possessing a university degree. Ontario, however, has the highest proportion of this population with masters and doctorates - 1.8 percent. These changes in education in Ontario parallel increases in a number of highly -specialized oc- cupations. Managerial, administrative and related occupations have grown by 104.9 percent since 1971 and there has been a significant increase of 97.4 percent in artistic, literary, recreational and related occupations. This compares with a moderate 9.3 percent growth in farming and other related agricultural oc- cupations. In 1981, Ontario's largest occupational group remained clerical and related occupations, num- bering 865,415 compared to 590,270 in 1971. Growth in a number of Ontario's industrial sectors has been equally impressive. In 1981, manufacturing in- dustries still possessed the largest labour force -- 1,031,885 - an increase of 25.9 percent since 1971, while the finance, insurance, and real estate industries surged in that decade with a growth of 63.9 percent. In 1981, Ontario's labour force numbered 4,464,050 for a participation rate of 67 percent of Ontarians over age 15. Twenty-seven per- cent of this labour force resided within Metropolitan Toronto municipality. Participation rates for Torontonians over 15 years of age are three percentage points higher than for the province as a whole. Mobility data revealed that 53.1 percent of Ontario's population five years of age and over in 1981 occupied the same dwelling as they did in 1976. This can be compared to the national figure of 52.4 percent. Of all those who have moved, slightly more than half moved within the same municipality. Since 1976, Ontario registered a net loss of 78,070 people to migration, with 38.6 percent heading for Alberta and another 2.3.1 percent moving to British Columbia. Quebec was the only province to exceed this net loss of population, due to ti. cope head hard on every step. They went off to the hospital hand in hand. I can put up with teachers staying home with minor things like heart attacks, but when they take a day off for a twisted back, just because they can't get out of their car, or up from a chair, that's a bet much, forcing me to soldier on with hangnails and a corn on the sole of my foot. Hoping to cheer myself up, I took a look at the fashion page in the newspaper, featuring the new spring models by Chanel of Paris. Thank the Lord I'm not a woman. That peek at the paper wo, 'd i .eve plunged me into a deep depression. Here are some of the items: "The deceptively demure r: n- ner dress in navy silk with a wide waistline defined by stitching, $1,150; the revised Chanel suit has a cropped jacket over a slender skirt, $1,950; worn over a tucked silk blouse, $500. Separates are a $795 knit caret igan and a wrap skirt, $475. How would you like to read that if your old man . d just been laid off, indefinite- ly? For a miserable $4,:'it you get a dinner dress, a suit, and a casual outfit. None of which you could wear more t once, twice at the outside. Some idiot once remarked that the poor are always with us. They are indeed, but that's obvious. Not so obvious is the fact that the rich are always with us, come hell, high water, shaky economy, unemploy- ment, downright depression. Something else that failed to cheer me up this winter was The Night of the Long Knives, when the Tory party once more made a national ass of itself by indulging in its favorite game: cutting its leader into large chunks and throwing them to the wolves. Hear those Liberals laughing? Oh, the winter hasn't been all dark and gloomy. My tailpipe has not fallen off. Yet. My rubber boots haven't sprung a leak. My wife has wracked up neither the car nor the garage, as is her wont. One more chry note. My old lady final- ly bought a stere 'outfit, and she plays it so loud she can't talk to me, though she tries, oh, she tries, mouthing words while I just put my hand to my ear. Sometimes I even get the paper read. And there's a bonus. The kids gave us a rag -time and a couple of jazz records for Christmas. After forcing the cllassics on longsuffering me for years, the old girl has discovered she loves jazz. Unfortunately, she has insomnia, and get up about 4:30 a.m. About 5 a.m., I am awakened by the booming of ragtime, dix- ieland, or far-out modern jazz shaking the very foundations. I like it, but there is a time and a place. Yes, it's been an odd sort of winter. How about yours? In the book Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash she said, "If you can get hold of something that you feel is going to help the people around yu, you'll find that you're so busy trying to add one more thing to it that you won't have time to � sorry for yourself or to wonder what you're going to be doing with your spare time.'. This, Mrs. Roosevelt said, helped her to be a better person and a benefit to her community. + + + Notice anything different in downtown Clinton these days? The parking meter heads are gone. Council and the BIA plan to place two hour parking limit signs on the poles. This will not only remind shoppers of the parking limitations, but will also help to internal migration, with 141,760 people moving out of that province over the past five years. Ontario's fertility con- tinues to run below the national average. in 1981, the average number of children for ever -married women 15 years of age and over was 2.5 in Canada, while in Ontario it was 2.3' The decline in this measure of fertility for Ontario has accelerated significantly in the past decade. From 1961 to 1971, the drop was 2.4 percent, while from 1971 to 1981, the decline was 5,8 percent. Something t , say? rite to the editor make the posts safer, particularly for night time pedestrians. + + + Our roving Bayfield photographer, George Chapman, reported this week that the big 60 foot fishing boat the Vary Brothers was launched this week. The boat, one of Ed Siddall's fishing fleet was out for maintenance repairs. We also have reports of sunbathing on the Bayfield Beach this past weekend. In March? Yes it's March. The robins and red winged black birds are back and on Clintonian even spotted a butterfly last week. David Brand of Goderich Township came across a balloon last week, sent from Riverside Public School in London as part of their science fair project. + + + In Blyth the easy winter months proved to be financially beneficial. Council estimated that the village saved $2,500 in snow removal costs this winter. + + + If you think the Canadian economy is bad, things are equally tough in Spain. The bullfighters are on strike. The 1983 bullfighting season failed to open of Sunday because of striking picadors and banderilleros. These bullring workers stick the pikes and darts into the bull to prepare him for the matador. The workers are demanding a 25 per cent wage increase, fixed assignments and payment in advance. utts Smokers who want to lower their tar and nicotine intake should keep an eye on their cigarette butts instead of relying on the levels of these ingredients listed on cigarette packages. This is the advice of Lynn Kozlowski, a researcher at Toronto's Addiction Research Foundation, who has developed a technique to help smokers increase con- trol over the amount of tar and nicotine they consign. He has devised a color - coded chart rating the color of the stain on a filter on a scale from one to 10. The col- or of the stain varies accor- ding to the way people smoke, resulting in a wide range of tar yields. "The appearance of the the reI. fats filter has some relationship to what got through that filter. The darker the tar stain, the more (tar) that got through," Kozlowski said in an interview. "The color -coding techni- que gives smokers a better way to monitor the number of puffs taken on 'a cigarette." The color on the filter 1 or butt) of a smoked cigarette shows how efficiently the filter has trapped the smoke - and how much tar is getting into the lungs. But smokers tend to rely on the "aver- age" tar and nicotine ratings listed on cigarette packages for this informa- tion, oforrna- tion, unaware that the machines used to measure these ingredients puff dif- ferently than smokers. Kozlowski, who has been active in smoking research since coming to the ARF in 1979, says the tar and nicotine ratings listed on cigarette packs do not reflect the amount of smoke the average smoker ingests from a particular brand. The smoking machines used to measure tar output average 35 millilitres of smoke per puff every 60 seconds, but re- cent scientific data show that some smokers average 50 ml of smoke per puff especially if they are smok- ing the longer cigarettes or smoking harder to compen- sate for switching to a light brand. Since filter efficiency varies according to brand, color scales need to be established for each brand, Kozlowski noted. He said the color -coded chart can be adapted easily for use on cigarette packages or matchbook covers. However, the Huron -Perth Lung Association says the best cigarette butt is the one that isn't smoked. 1f you want to "Kick the Habit", and want help, contact the Huron -Perth Lung Associa- tion. it could be a matter of life and breath'' Call 271- 7500 or write the Huron - Perth I,ung Association, 653 West Gore Street, Stratford, Ontario N5A 11A for more in- formation.