The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-03-30, Page 30Page 10—Crossroads—March 30, 1983
iven irked by obits
HOLLYWOOD — There
have been frequent sugges-
tions over the past months
that British actor David
Niven is practically at
death's door. There was
even a report in Hollywood
that he had actually died.
Well, these rumors have
been very depressing for
Niven's fans, upsetting for
his wife and, rather more
importantly, aggravating
for the superstar himself.
There's no doubt that the
old fellow is far from well,
but Niven might well ob
serve, as did Mark Twain
When he had been killed off
before his time by the
newspapers, "The report of
my death was an exag-
geration."
From Switzerland,
where the debonair Oscar
winner (for "Separate Ta-
bles" in 1959, remember?)
is spending the majority of
his time, his wife Hjordis
has given the first detailed
bulletin on the state of his
health.
She said, "David's got
problems, as you know.
"It is not a heart attack
or cancer as people have
said. kit is a slight muscular
disorder. It makes it diffi-
cult for him to speak and
makes him too tired ' to
walk and write as much as
he would like.
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I'm calling
about your
Crossroads
Classified ad
fora '72 van.
Sold!
It's just what
I need.
We also have
extra parts to
fit that model
van. Would
you be inter-
ested?
ested in creating a pretty
and dramatic bedroom for
myself, a single women. I
have always had a very
tailored, contemporary
bedroom but I'd like a
change. I admire all the
pictures I see of floral
prints and delicately col-
ored fabrics.
My carpeting is a cream
color that matches the•va11
paint. Please suggest some
dramatic ideas for this
room. — C.C.
A. Today one of the most
exciting ways to make a
dramatic statement in bed-
room decorating is with an
imaginative bed design.
Consider creating a
canopy frame attached to
the ceiling. From this ceil-
ing frame you can attach
yards of fabric caught at
the four corners of the bed.
Wallpaper the canopy
frame or cover it with a
pretty print to match the
corner fabric.
Continue the wallpaper
or fabric across the bed-
room's walls, on the bed
and at the windows. This
will give you the feeling of
being enveloped in the fab-
ric.
Add accent colors in the
room taken from the colors
in the fabric you choose.
Area rugs in the same
family of colors are effec-
tive if your room is large
enough to have a seating
area in one part.
Built-in closets elimi-
nate the need forbulky
dressers.
Select a fabric with light
to medium colors and plen-
ty of cream -colored back-
ground to create an airy,
delicate atmosphere.
Q. I have French doors
in my newly remodeled
dining room. I am trying to
decide what sort of window
treatment would be nice on
them, a large dining room
picture window and at two
entry hall windows that
are tall and narrow.
The entry ball is just off
the dining room so I'd like
to treat the two spaces the
same way. What would be
a good choice? — R.P.
A. Why don't you consid-
er Roman shades for all of
the windows you describe.
This type of shade, which
lies flat when let down,
falls in flat folds when
raised. You can create a
very pleasing window
treatment on various sizes
and styles of windows in
this manner.
If you wish to create a
contemporary look, you
can use a crisp stripe or a
brightly colored paisley or
print.
If you'd like a more re-
strained, elegant look,
choose a solid -color fabric
and trim the edges with a
braid.
Q. We have a vacation
house in the mountains and
are trying to do some fix-
ing up before summer
comes.
The floors are wood but,
because the houseis quite
old, they are discolored.
We don't want to carpet
the house nor do we want
to put down vinyl, because
of the cost involved.
Do you have any ideas
that could help out the
looks of the house but be
easy on our budget? —
R.C.B.
A. Why not paint your
wooden floors with a solid
color, then add diagonal
squares or diamond shapes
in a contrasting color. You
could create a black and
white floor or a rust and
gold one, or a blue and yel-
low design — any color
combination that you'd like
to carry out, in your new
home.
Rectangular shapes are
fairly easy to create by
using masking tape to keep
the lines straight.
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With the Federal govern-
ment facing a truly awesome
deficit that makes me wince
for my children and grand-
children, and with the tax=
man lurking just over the
horizon, ready to rummage
through my every pocket,
L'm in just the right mood to
be re -reading Thoreau's
great essay, "Civil Disobedi-
ence."
Like most Canadians, I am
ripe and ready for telling the
state to go jump in the lake,
stop meddling in affairs it in-
variably bungles, and get its
thieving hand out of my hip
pocket.
One of Thoreau's main
themes is that governments
are only an expedient for
getting things done; things
that the individual can't han-
dle, such as national de-
fence, postal service, and the
like. But, as he points out,
most governments are inex-
pedient.
In other words, they
meddle, they obstruct the
natural flow of trade and
commerce, they involve the
governed in all sorts of
things the latter disapprove
of, and their main purpose
becomes self -perpetuation,
rather than carrying out the
will of the people.
Think about it. Did you in-
sist that the government go
on spending and borrowing
wildly until our national defi
cit is heading for $200 billion,
and the interest on it alone is
more than the entire budget
of a decade or so ago?
Did you demand that the
government impose the
metric system on Canada
without a yea or a nay from
the people?
Was it you, or any of your
friends, who insisted that the
government set itself up in
the oil and gas business,
without adding one single
gallon of production?
Perhaps it was you and
people like you, who forced
the federal and provincial
governments to rely so heav-
ily for revenues on their
taxes on poison: booze and
cigarettes.
Or maybe it was you who
whispered in a ministerial
earhole that taxes should be
increased for the poor and
the middle-class, but held
steady for the rich, because
to increase theirs would "de-
stroy initiative."
Does the government
really carry out your wishes
about capital punishment,
foreign aid, urban sprawl in
choice farmland?
No! No!, I hear, in great
volume. Then why don't you
do something about it? But
what can I do, you say. All I
can do is vote, you say, and
it's usually 'picking one tur-
key over another.
Agreed, but there is a solu-
tion,• according to Thoreau.
It's simple in theory, diffi-
cult in practice. Just don't
pay your taxes. Get up on
your hind legs, and say it: "I
won't pay taxes to buy oil
companies, to support crim-
inals in jail, to advertise the
glories of the government in
publications ... and what-
ever else turns your crank.
But, you,'ll say, I'd never
get away with it. They'd
seize my bank account, cash
m} bonds, grab my pro-
perty, put me in jail. Of
course they would. I told you
it wasn't easy.
All you have to do is per-
suade another 9,999 honest
men of conscience to do the
same, and the revolution
would be over. Would the
government throw in jail ten
thousand 'otherwise honest,
upright citizens? No fear. It
would lose the next elek tion,
aside from not having
enough jail space to put
them.
Of course, finding the rest
ofthe ten thousand might be
a mite dicey. Finding ten
honest men these days, men
of conscience and integrity,
who are willing to stand up
and defy is about as easy as
being appointed coach of the
Toronto Maple Leafs and
told to go out and bring home
the Stanley Cup.
-Thoreau himself refused to
pay h(s poll tax and was put
in jail, which he found highly
amusing. Imagine the
government thinking they
could lock up his mind, along
with his body.
But the big trouble is that
governments are so sneaky
these days. They wouldn't
dare throw ten thousand
solid citizens in jail. But they
could garnishee their wages,
seize their assets, haul them
into the courts and generally
harass them to death.
It was simpler in other
times. They crucified Christ,
excommunicated Luther and
Copernicus, pronounced
Washington a rebel, and
dealt in similar summary
fashion with other great re-
formers, patriots and saints.
I know what you're say-
ing: I ain't no saint. True.
But then neither are you a
slave, to be bought and sold
depending on 'the whims of
the majority: big business,
big government, big labor.
There's many a man —
and woman — walking the
streets these days, who
thought he or she -was an in-
dividual, a person of charac-
ter and conscience and loyal-
ty, tossed out like an old
broom by the system, which
is not exactly based on the
New Testament.
But gtii e1y we carie dig in
our heels a bit. Tell you
what. We'll work like a chain
letter. You find nine other
honest men or women. I'll do
the same. On the 29th of
April, the ten thousand of us
will send a telegram to Tru-
deau, saying, "We ain't
gonna pay our taxes."
It might take us a while,
thirty years or so. Honest
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