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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-06-05, Page 23H. coRnoN GREEN I see that a letter to the Editor in one of our big dailies is mightily disturbing the peace right now by sug- gesting that if you strip the different religions- of their myths and creeds, they are amazingly similar. The let- ter writer goes on to say that if we Would only realize this Coleman° ['1 FREE FRIDGE with each new Coleman, Hardtop. (limited offer) ,;MOBILIFE RV CENTRE No. 8 Hwy. between Kitchener & Cambridge (519) 653-5788 STOP H 1 fact, we would find it much easier to be tolerant toward those whose way of life hap- pens to be differentthan aur own. Obviously it is very dif- ficul,t- for us to avoid a superiority complex when we are religiously convinced that we have the truth, the whole truth and nothing b the truth and that all the rest of the world is still stubborn- ly clinging to the gods and superstitions of heathens. As you might suspect, a comment so daring as this has aroused a wave of righteous- indignation. Here is a man, say fhe objectors, who is so broad-minded that - he can't 'tell right from wrong. For we who are Chrsitians are, by our very confession of faith, walking in light whilst the rest of humanity gropes in endless dark. And while it is our duty to take our light to them, it is little short of heresy, they say, to suppose that Christian precepts can exist without a belief in Christ Himself. ' I don't think that the read- ers who are following the discussion can expect it to achieve anything but more heat, but since I'm as addict- ed to futile.argument as any- one else, I think I'll take sides with the man who II■f•I•I•_ 1 AIR LOSS! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NIAGARA LABS �. 1 Before After 16 weeks Proven new home treatments for balding . men and women: beveloped from 20 1 years of research. Relief from DANDRUFF, ITCH, OILINESS, DRYNESS AND LOSS OF HAIR , Let. us .prove it to you! 1 HAIR & SCALP SPECIALISTS 47 King St. West, Suite 306 Medical Arts Building, Kitchener � By Appointment CaII 744-2833 •EN Nu •isI•IN 1 started the trouble. As I,see it, the essential spirit off Christian doctrine was sum- med up by Christ Himself when He said "Do unto others as you would that others,should do unto you." And yet it would be more pious than honest to contend that. Christ was the originator of this Golden Rule.. Over on the other side of the world, some 500 years before, a wise man named Confucius had said almost the same thing to a devoted disciple of his named Tsekung. "Is there one single word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?" Tsekung asked his master. And Confucius told him "Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you." But I have been doing a little rainy -day research into the several wisdoms of the past and I discover that even before Confucius, other pro- pliets,.r•had expressed the same thoughts in words that were almost as direct. There was the Persian sage Zoroaster, for instance, who lived so long ago that history can't quite put a date tag on him, and we're never quite sure how much of our infor- mation about him is legend and how much is fact. Those who follow his precepts to- day will tell you that Zoroaster laughed on the day of his birth, that he lived in the wilderness on cheese and finally, out of his love of ,wisdom and righteousness, withdrew himself entirely from men to live in solitude upon a mountain top, When the mountain was consumed by fire one day, Zoroaster was unharmed. , One might expect to find a lot of weird fairy tales coming from a man like that, but instead I find him telling his followers "That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is; not good for its own self." The -probable date for that utterance is about 1000 B.C. and here is how some of the other religions express it: -Judaism: "What is hurtful to yourself, do not do to your fellow man." (Talmud) Mohammed: "No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." (Tradi- tions) Buddha: "Hurt not others with that which pains your- self." 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I am sure that if you soak- - ed the finished cloth in one of the new active enzyme pro- ducts that are on the market these days (and I am think- ing of the ones advertised as, pre-soak) you willfind that the yellow and discoloration will completely disappear! I had some very old needlework, very fine cross- stitch that had been work- ed on lines and was at least 75 years old. My Aunt had worked these as. a girl of fourteen! Over the years even though. -they had been in glass frames, they were dis- colored, how much I didn't know until I washed them! Even some of the brown age spots disappeared in the pre- soak_ formulas. I was very much surprised. I do urge you to read the instructions on the box very carefully though, and kee,rinsing un- til the water is clear. Roll the cloth up in a towel to absorb the excess moisture, then roll into another and leave until dry. Quite a number of ladies use the summer • months working on small items for fall bazaars, and over the next few weeks I will be fea- turing several ideas for you. Mainstream Canada Confidence to sleep with elephants By Tony Carlson • Animals play a central role in our perception of Ca- nada's relationship with the United States. Their eagle soars above the world, a bird of prey, symbolizing power. Our industrious beaver gnaws away, quietly hewing wood ,and drawing water off the beaten track of most of the world. In economic terms we are the tail, they the dog. Or they're the elephant and we worry about sleeping with such an ungainly beast lest it roll over and squash us. , All of these comparisons,. and more, will be made in the coming months .as the issue of free trade heats up with the weather, as we approach the September ne- gotiations with our neigh- bors. . eighbors.. The debate has surfaced ,,sporadically since John A. was a pup. Opponent"§ cite the spectre of economic and political union with the U.S. as an inevitable result. They predict job losses. as U.S. branch plants downsize or close. We will be crushed, they say, if the elephant rolls over. Supporters see free trade as opening vast new markets for Canadian business. And they say it will force changes that will produce a more cost-efficient Canadian economy, one more able to compete in all export markets and provide better • returns for a more produc- tive work force. Where does small business stand? Well, until recently, independent business oper- ators were pretty well split on the issue. ,-But now, in a recent sur- vey by the Canadian Federa- tion,of Independent Busi- nes, fully two-thirds of the more than 16,000 respon- dents backed free trade with the U.S. Only 20 per cent op- posed the idea and 14 per cent were undecided. Now a 66 per cent vote in favor may; not seem over- whelming at first glance. But ask any government what they would do if they on two of every three popular votes. The fact is that we are gov- erned by people whorarely, if ever get that kind of support from the electorate. In Ontario, in ,fact, the gov- ernment actually got fewer votes than the official op- position party. But more than that, the latest figures show that free trade support is significantly stronger than it was just 10 years ago. In 1975, when the CFIB asked its members the same question, only 44 per cent backed opening the gates to U.S. trade; 50 per cent were opposed and 6 per cent undecided. Why the change? There is never a simple answer, but there is one word which goes a long way to capturing the reason: confidence.' Small businesses, says CFIB president John Bul- loch, have a new optimism in their own abilities. And, says the business leader,. because small business is a microcosm of Canadian so- ciety, the latest survey re - suits also reflect a changing attitude among Canadians in general. "This dramatic rise in support for free trade indi- cates that we as a nation have a new-found confidence in ourselves, our pt'oducts and our ability to,compete on an equal footing with the most aggressive en- trepreneurial society on earth." So much for sleeping ele- phants. This week's pattern is ideal for bazaars, a little cro- chet umbrella on a stand to hold serviettes. Quickly and •easily crocheted you could' no doubt make several from one ball of cotton, and they would be a most popular item. To order this. week's pat- tern No. 8272 send 75 cents plus a stamped self address- ed return envelope. If you do not have a stamp or en- velope, please enclose an ex- tra 50 cents to cover the cost of handling and print your name and address. Send to: Louisa Rush, "Craft Talk", 486 Montford Drive, Dollard des Ormeaux, P.O., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pattern numbers cd rectly when ordering and to include your stamped return en- velope for faster service. Crossroads—June 5, 1985—Page 7A Spring gardens a smorgasbord for pests By Patrick Denton With the spring gardening season in full swing, the birds in full chirp and the gardens awash in fresh waves off color and green growth, we'll be noticing the odd unwelcome muncher among our garden visitors. . Just how we deal with the various kinds of destructive life in our home gardens .in- volves some decisions that are most important to our owl 'personal health and to the well-being of the environ- ment. The most safe and sensible approach to garden pests is to first identify the problem and then to choose the least toxic effective product to use against it. Let's see how this wopuld work in the case of a, common garden pest. Perhaps .on one or two of your treasured hybrid tea ; rose bushes you notice clusters of aphids gathered onma few of the new growth tips. To get rid of the aphids, or to reduce them to accept- able levels, you have a multitude of options. The first thing to do is to make certain you correctly have identified the pest. Aphids, or plant lice (green- fly in Britain), are small, soft -bodied, pear-shaped and most often either pale green or black. They are mostly wingless, though some - develop wings to migrate to a new feeding site when a colony becomes too dense. Aphids pierce plant tissue to suck out juices. They secrete honeydew, which at- tracts ants 'and forms a medium for the growth of a black fungus called sooty mold. Aphids are, a most common plant pest and these are • specie, that attack all forms of vegetation. It's important to begin controling aphids before the. colonies proliferate — which they do at a disgusting rate, the spring and summertime females not evenneeding the help of a male to gie birth to hordes of more, similarly gifted live baby girl aphids. Flights from prairie marshes (NC) -- Recoveries of duck bands reveal some remark- able travels by waterfowl. For example a number of pintail, drakes banded ill mid -summer in central Sas- katchewan and Alberta, were recovered the follow- ing spring in Kamchatka, Russia. These birds, proba- bly migrated south in fall to California, paired off with female pintails from Rus- sia and returned with their mates in the spring to Kam- chatka. Another drake pin- tail banded in Alberta was recovered at Matsushima Bay, Japan. — Blue - winged Teal also travel far, regularly, migrating to South America, one flew from Athabasca Delta, Alberta to Maricaibo, Vene- zuela, 3,750 miles m 34 days! For the free pamphlet, Know Your Ducks, write: Ducks Unlimited Canada, 1190 Waverley Street, Winnipeg, Mani- toba, R3T 2E2. And as they suck plant juices, aphids cause unsight- ly curling and twisting. of leaves. It's best to begin con- trols before, this distortion begins. - Their soft bodies are the aphids' one great vulnerabil- ity. On small plants like rose bushes, it's possible to crush them with one's fingers and take the hose spray Ip the plant to remove any linger= ers. It's important here, a$ with any spray, to hit both. the soft, succulent stems and the undersides of the leaves. On trees and large shrubs where the squish routine is not possible, some sort of spray will be necessary. And here you will have a number of choices, from moderately to slightly toxic chemcial poisons, the minimally toxic rotenone down to the least toxic of available sprays — insecticidal soap. The relative toxicity. of a pesticide is based on tests with small animals and the ratings include toxic reac- tions by skin absorption and oral intake. It makes sense for a home gardener to use the least toxic product that will do the job, not only for the sake of personal safety but also for the preservation of benefi- cial forms of insect and bac- terial life in the garden. Honeybees, ladybird beetles and lacewings especially are our garden allies, and it; makes no sense to destroy them when it's not necessary. Another common garden pest arrives with those familiar white butterflies hovering around our cab- bage family vegetables. These include radishes and turnips as well as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kohlrabi. The butterflies lay pale eggs that can be re- moved by hand before they develop into caterpillars that chew holes in the plants., Brownish moths produce a green cabbage looper that forms its body in a loop to travel. The least toxic spray against the caterpillars is thuricide, bacterial spores that attack and kill many types of caterpillars. It has not been harmful to humans, birds, animals, fish or earth- worms. Rotenone dust also is effective, but is toxic to frogs and toads, and to humans if inhaled fresh. Break Into Some Big Money Tryselling in the Classifieds Place your ad today Jason. Shannon and Kim "Cottell, Mount Forest, Ontario R EZ 1NR• AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION SEASONAL SERVICE , ,. DOMESTIC -5 00 & START-UP , WINDOW SPECIAL UNITS Includes: Removal of Unit; Clean Coils, Lubricate; Charge with Refrig- ment if Necessary; Re -installation. WE SELL &SERVICE NEW & USED APPLIANCES • RESIDENTIAL 00 CENTRAL1 00 HEAT PUMP Includes. Maintenance & Filter Change & D R 'FREEZETll Fee 1-416 o89r3-2147 London, Orangeville, Kitchener, Elmira, .Toronto raft Tal By Louisa Rush Dear Louisa: Over the past few years, as I was able to, I've 'been cro- cheting a tablecloth, and by this time a part of it has yel- lowed quite a bit. How would I go about bleaching this to one color — namely white? If it can't be successfully bleached out, should I try to make it an ecru tone? Mrs. D.J. de R., Victoria, B.C. I would suggest, that . you wait until you have finished 'the cloth 'completely before worrying about the bleach- ing. This can be done very successfully. I had a similar experience just recently.. I am sure that if you soak- - ed the finished cloth in one of the new active enzyme pro- ducts that are on the market these days (and I am think- ing of the ones advertised as, pre-soak) you willfind that the yellow and discoloration will completely disappear! I had some very old needlework, very fine cross- stitch that had been work- ed on lines and was at least 75 years old. My Aunt had worked these as. a girl of fourteen! Over the years even though. -they had been in glass frames, they were dis- colored, how much I didn't know until I washed them! Even some of the brown age spots disappeared in the pre- soak_ formulas. I was very much surprised. I do urge you to read the instructions on the box very carefully though, and kee,rinsing un- til the water is clear. Roll the cloth up in a towel to absorb the excess moisture, then roll into another and leave until dry. Quite a number of ladies use the summer • months working on small items for fall bazaars, and over the next few weeks I will be fea- turing several ideas for you. Mainstream Canada Confidence to sleep with elephants By Tony Carlson • Animals play a central role in our perception of Ca- nada's relationship with the United States. Their eagle soars above the world, a bird of prey, symbolizing power. Our industrious beaver gnaws away, quietly hewing wood ,and drawing water off the beaten track of most of the world. In economic terms we are the tail, they the dog. Or they're the elephant and we worry about sleeping with such an ungainly beast lest it roll over and squash us. , All of these comparisons,. and more, will be made in the coming months .as the issue of free trade heats up with the weather, as we approach the September ne- gotiations with our neigh- bors. . eighbors.. The debate has surfaced ,,sporadically since John A. was a pup. Opponent"§ cite the spectre of economic and political union with the U.S. as an inevitable result. They predict job losses. as U.S. branch plants downsize or close. We will be crushed, they say, if the elephant rolls over. Supporters see free trade as opening vast new markets for Canadian business. And they say it will force changes that will produce a more cost-efficient Canadian economy, one more able to compete in all export markets and provide better • returns for a more produc- tive work force. Where does small business stand? Well, until recently, independent business oper- ators were pretty well split on the issue. ,-But now, in a recent sur- vey by the Canadian Federa- tion,of Independent Busi- nes, fully two-thirds of the more than 16,000 respon- dents backed free trade with the U.S. Only 20 per cent op- posed the idea and 14 per cent were undecided. Now a 66 per cent vote in favor may; not seem over- whelming at first glance. But ask any government what they would do if they on two of every three popular votes. The fact is that we are gov- erned by people whorarely, if ever get that kind of support from the electorate. In Ontario, in ,fact, the gov- ernment actually got fewer votes than the official op- position party. But more than that, the latest figures show that free trade support is significantly stronger than it was just 10 years ago. In 1975, when the CFIB asked its members the same question, only 44 per cent backed opening the gates to U.S. trade; 50 per cent were opposed and 6 per cent undecided. Why the change? There is never a simple answer, but there is one word which goes a long way to capturing the reason: confidence.' Small businesses, says CFIB president John Bul- loch, have a new optimism in their own abilities. And, says the business leader,. because small business is a microcosm of Canadian so- ciety, the latest survey re - suits also reflect a changing attitude among Canadians in general. "This dramatic rise in support for free trade indi- cates that we as a nation have a new-found confidence in ourselves, our pt'oducts and our ability to,compete on an equal footing with the most aggressive en- trepreneurial society on earth." So much for sleeping ele- phants. This week's pattern is ideal for bazaars, a little cro- chet umbrella on a stand to hold serviettes. Quickly and •easily crocheted you could' no doubt make several from one ball of cotton, and they would be a most popular item. To order this. week's pat- tern No. 8272 send 75 cents plus a stamped self address- ed return envelope. If you do not have a stamp or en- velope, please enclose an ex- tra 50 cents to cover the cost of handling and print your name and address. Send to: Louisa Rush, "Craft Talk", 486 Montford Drive, Dollard des Ormeaux, P.O., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pattern numbers cd rectly when ordering and to include your stamped return en- velope for faster service. Crossroads—June 5, 1985—Page 7A Spring gardens a smorgasbord for pests By Patrick Denton With the spring gardening season in full swing, the birds in full chirp and the gardens awash in fresh waves off color and green growth, we'll be noticing the odd unwelcome muncher among our garden visitors. . Just how we deal with the various kinds of destructive life in our home gardens .in- volves some decisions that are most important to our owl 'personal health and to the well-being of the environ- ment. The most safe and sensible approach to garden pests is to first identify the problem and then to choose the least toxic effective product to use against it. Let's see how this wopuld work in the case of a, common garden pest. Perhaps .on one or two of your treasured hybrid tea ; rose bushes you notice clusters of aphids gathered onma few of the new growth tips. To get rid of the aphids, or to reduce them to accept- able levels, you have a multitude of options. The first thing to do is to make certain you correctly have identified the pest. Aphids, or plant lice (green- fly in Britain), are small, soft -bodied, pear-shaped and most often either pale green or black. They are mostly wingless, though some - develop wings to migrate to a new feeding site when a colony becomes too dense. Aphids pierce plant tissue to suck out juices. They secrete honeydew, which at- tracts ants 'and forms a medium for the growth of a black fungus called sooty mold. Aphids are, a most common plant pest and these are • specie, that attack all forms of vegetation. It's important to begin controling aphids before the. colonies proliferate — which they do at a disgusting rate, the spring and summertime females not evenneeding the help of a male to gie birth to hordes of more, similarly gifted live baby girl aphids. Flights from prairie marshes (NC) -- Recoveries of duck bands reveal some remark- able travels by waterfowl. For example a number of pintail, drakes banded ill mid -summer in central Sas- katchewan and Alberta, were recovered the follow- ing spring in Kamchatka, Russia. These birds, proba- bly migrated south in fall to California, paired off with female pintails from Rus- sia and returned with their mates in the spring to Kam- chatka. Another drake pin- tail banded in Alberta was recovered at Matsushima Bay, Japan. — Blue - winged Teal also travel far, regularly, migrating to South America, one flew from Athabasca Delta, Alberta to Maricaibo, Vene- zuela, 3,750 miles m 34 days! For the free pamphlet, Know Your Ducks, write: Ducks Unlimited Canada, 1190 Waverley Street, Winnipeg, Mani- toba, R3T 2E2. And as they suck plant juices, aphids cause unsight- ly curling and twisting. of leaves. It's best to begin con- trols before, this distortion begins. - Their soft bodies are the aphids' one great vulnerabil- ity. On small plants like rose bushes, it's possible to crush them with one's fingers and take the hose spray Ip the plant to remove any linger= ers. It's important here, a$ with any spray, to hit both. the soft, succulent stems and the undersides of the leaves. On trees and large shrubs where the squish routine is not possible, some sort of spray will be necessary. And here you will have a number of choices, from moderately to slightly toxic chemcial poisons, the minimally toxic rotenone down to the least toxic of available sprays — insecticidal soap. The relative toxicity. of a pesticide is based on tests with small animals and the ratings include toxic reac- tions by skin absorption and oral intake. It makes sense for a home gardener to use the least toxic product that will do the job, not only for the sake of personal safety but also for the preservation of benefi- cial forms of insect and bac- terial life in the garden. Honeybees, ladybird beetles and lacewings especially are our garden allies, and it; makes no sense to destroy them when it's not necessary. Another common garden pest arrives with those familiar white butterflies hovering around our cab- bage family vegetables. These include radishes and turnips as well as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kohlrabi. The butterflies lay pale eggs that can be re- moved by hand before they develop into caterpillars that chew holes in the plants., Brownish moths produce a green cabbage looper that forms its body in a loop to travel. The least toxic spray against the caterpillars is thuricide, bacterial spores that attack and kill many types of caterpillars. It has not been harmful to humans, birds, animals, fish or earth- worms. Rotenone dust also is effective, but is toxic to frogs and toads, and to humans if inhaled fresh. Break Into Some Big Money Tryselling in the Classifieds Place your ad today Jason. Shannon and Kim "Cottell, Mount Forest, Ontario