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THE HERALD Home Newspaper of Georgetown Acton and A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Strati South Ontario HICHAM MUkr BIRTH OF CHRIST The Christmas Story And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flocks by night And the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone around them and they were sore afraid And the angel said unto them Fear not forbenold I bring you tidings of great Joy which be to all people For unto you is born this day In the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord And this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying Glory In the highest and on earth peace good will toward And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven the shepherds said one to another Let us now to unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass which the Lord has made known unto us And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the Babe lying in a manger And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds But Mary kept all these things and pondered them In her heart And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them Luke 2 Wasted Food Resources Pressures on the worlds food supplies because of its too rapidly increasing population are in tensified certain demands many of which are highly questionable For example our oversupply of pets In North America per cent of urban families have one or more Apartment living tends to reduce their number out it is believed to be rising They make inroads on both protein ana starch supply Another example is deliberate food destruction in world liquor production Beer takes 16 minion pounds of barley malt annually with a five per cent yearly in crease of which total Canadas brewejies account for nearly four per cent 1970 Canadian distilleries use over one billion pounds of grain largely corn If this also Is four per cent of world production not including rice it means 254 billion pounds which with barley malt comes to over billion pounds more than 40 pounds each for one billion hungry people Besides this wine production highly acclaimed By some destroys great quantities of fresh fruits also robbing the food supply One BC winery boasts of using tons 1972 and plans This doubly offsets the four million pounds gain of Chinas largest commune of 80000 people The high cost and shortage of raisins are largely due to their use in wine production Clearly we have yet to use all our resources with conscience compassion and intelligence in thus encroaching on the rightful claims of the hungry while manufacturing a product causing our impairment When the UN Food and Agriculture Organization stated last June that wheat requirements of could not be met from production it behooves all governments to curtail these wastes making the savings available to the hungry who are mostly children At all times but especially at the Christmas season thought regarding the needs of others should guide our practice A Western Christmas In the Wests first settlement at Red River now Winnipeg the Scots whom Lord Selkirk brought there In 1612 celebrated the Christmas feast as a closeknit community It was here that Hurl played by teams between foals on the ice using sticks and a all not a puck is supposed to have marked the origin of hockey in Canada In the evening everyone danced to the bagpipes Not until was the Christmas season celebrated as a religious festival in the two mission churches French- Catholic and EnglishProtestant But Red River folk saw bad times In the Christmas of 1821 when each person in the settlement was rationed to one pint of wheat a day boiled into a thin By Joseph James Hargrave was able to describe a happier Christmas for now Red River was a wellestablished Hudsons Bay Company post For months before the holiday loaded dog teams were bringing an abundance of supplies Into the trading stores of Fort Garry even the carcass of a bear Christmas dinner was served In the Forts great hall On the long table were smoking roasts of beet unborn buffalo calf boiled whole a gourmet delicacy besides every kind of vegetable The dinner ended with fur trade pudding as near to the traditional English plum pudding as could be achieved considering the shortage of currants and raisins Sometimes dried Saskatoon berries were substituted Let us drink to absent friends was the only toast of these folk so far removed from the people and places they loved It YEARS AGO Dave son of Mr end Mn Eric of Georgetown selected by a of scouting official to represent the at the American Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge Penn Dave selected from among four candidates One member of Georgetown council for MM took his oath of office before the new year arrived Charles HUdebrandt would miss tbe inaugural meeting because of a trip to Germany and was sworn in early by clerk Clarence Beobam Stuart Hall manager of Master Feeds mill at Stewarttown was elected president of Ontario Retail Feed Dealers Association He had served for nine years on the executive of the Mrs Sam Walker was returned as president of the Womens Auxiliary of St Georges Anglican Church Vice- president selected was Mrs Thomas Parry while Mrs William Chaplin was named treasurer and Mrs Ken was chosen as secretary Mr and Mrs Chuck Hill were winners in a Georgetown Junior Chamber of Commerce contest for a trip to Jamaica Georgetown Jaycee president George Farrow a TCA passenger agent bid the couple farewell as they boarded a plane forme trip worshipful master Walter Fuller was named senior warden while James Evans was named Junior warden A plan that was set down In a field on the farm of Norman Bird finally was claimed by Its owners The plane made a forced sad two young man told Mr Bird they would return shortly to returning VETO AND AU THROUGH TttJJ PEOPLE MOT A A our on THAT THEY to SSTU TO TO on AtJy THAT Or ok stays- At PRIVATE MORALITY Social Standards Relate To Ethics Of Individual There Is a truism that morality cannot be legislated At least It Is true In the sense that no moral points can be earned for not stealing or not killing or not cheating on Income tax returns simply because a person Is afraid of being caught Rut the phrase baa taken on a new twist In tbe last few years In some quarters It Is suggested that morality ought not to be legislated Ethics are regarded as a private and personal nutter In which the slate should have no Interest As the Prime Minister said a few Sears ago the government as no business in the bedrooms of tbe nation There are very few things we do however which do not affect others The members of a society do not live In splendid Isolation from one another despite the myths wearafed to the contrary A vivid example is the case of the across ihacountry who have rallied to support Dr Henry demand that abortion laws should be removed from the criminal code The decision to kill the fetus or allow it to live they say is one of those private matters that should be made by tbe woman and her doctor They would deny the husband any control over the child his wife waa carrying though presumably he had something to do with It getting there More Importantly they Livestock Feeders Save On Feed Cost would deny mat the fetus has any rights To speak of It as pan of the womans body like an appendix la misleading for It Is a biologically separate being mother and fetus for example may have different blood types It does depend on its parent for survival but then so does a twoyearold child Although tbe fetus physically looks very human It Is an open question morally whether he should be described as a human being Yet even the possibility of his being so described should make people wary of denying his rights There are bound to be difficulties In legislation dealing with abortion There are difficulties of definition like the Impossibility of saying when human life begins And Reasonable Oil Supplies Set Out In Bank Letter ECHOES FROM THE PAST Music teacner Kenneth R Harrison played musical accompaniment for the Christmas show at Public School Senior pupils Diane Hill and Lota read the nativity story All grades at the school took part In the presentation In Its annual forecast of oil and gas supplies the Toronto Dominion Bank foresees a reasonable balance for Canada In 1974 providing that no further significant dislocations afflict the world supply situation With normal winter conditions and restraint In consumption Canadas overall petroleum product demands can be met in despite some regional Imbalances The current issue of Business and Economics entitled the Canadian Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries Ina Year of Crisis Is the banks annual review of Industry It was prepared prior to Prime Minister statement on energy in the House of Commons on Thursday December The review says- Canadians need have litUe to fear so as their access lo ample domestic sources of energy over the longer term Is concerned But whatever decisions are made to develop such resources Canadians are stilt con fronted with rather urgent shortterm supply questions PRICE STRUCTURE It would have been Im possible because of unac ceptable costs to have prepared for the current conUngency In the per spective now however of a newly emerged supply and mat the utmost cooperation and decisiveness are demonstrated by by Federal and Provincial governments Any reasonable decisions which can assure Canadians of adequate energy supplies while the present crisis lasts would surely be acceptable to most Canadians Looking beyond the present disruptions to sup ply the Bank predicts that What seems most probable Is that the Canadian public authorities will Intensify their current efforts to reduce Canadian dependence on imported and especially Middle Eastern oil These efforts will be much more easily attained upon ex tension by the end of 1979 to Montreal of the pipeline which presently carries Canadian crude to Ontario and MidWestern United States markets The In crement to costs that would result if Canadian crude were shipped to refineries In the Atlantic Provinces makes it likely that Imported crude oil will continue to serve those markets at least until a major commercially viable oil find Is In the Easlemoffshoreregion In the meantime the Bank forecasts that an ac celeration in the develop ment of Albertas will greatly augment Canadas reliable future crude oil supplies SHARP INCREASE Looking at the more im mediate situation the observes that Allowing the sharp increase in exports of crude which has taken place over tbe past two years Canadian exports will probably be held at about present levels about one million barrels a day throughout 1974 Supporting analytical tables Indicate that the resultant savings In exports of over barrels a day in 1974 will almost equal the expected decline in Imports In the natural gas industry price re alignments dominated the scene In 1973 in Canada and in the Banks view price Increases rather than supply shortages will dominate news about the Industry In 1974 domestic sales of natural gas are expected to rise by nearly nine per cent but because of complex long term supply question ex- ports are not expected to rise in 1974 As for the longer term the reserves which have been delineated in the Mackenzie Delta Region are sufficient In combination with hose proven on the Alaskan North Slope to justify a large diameter pipeline carrying gas from both the North Slope and Mackenzie Delta to consuming markets In Canada and tbe United States QUEENS PARK WCB Fine Record Acquires Tarnish According to study on feed costs conducted by United Cooperatives of Ontario feed marketing department million dollars were saved by On tario Coop livestock feeders The million applies to the Coop swine beef and dairy supplements sold to Ontario producers front November 1973 to March 1973 but also provided most of April requirements During that had a special feed booking program which guaranteed prices from October to March on orders booked by Nov IS 1972 Participating hog producers saved million of the total while dairy producers saved and last fall however and some feed suppliers decided to withdraw their contracts when protein costs surged last winter While experienced a short term toss in operations the final result was an actual saving of million to tbe Coop livestock producers Poultry producers also experienced some profitability as a result of positions taken on soybean meal and Western grain markets that allowed UCO to apply a downward pressure on feed Industry prices throughout the chaotic feed Ingredient market situation For the world energy and protein supply is not yqt clear If Information from various economists and feed trade specialists la accurate energy grains should be of greater concern at present there are difficulties of application the present practice seems to be much more widespread than tbe law envisioned It would be no sohiUon however for Parliament to try to sidestep the difficulties and give In to tbe rhetoric that this is a of individual ethics may have a private morality in the sense that they have their own moral standards which may differ from those of other people But those standards deal with bow they relate to society around them and in that sense here no such thing as private morality Ontario Workmens Compensation Board has always been one of this provinces proudest institutions Most similar organizations in the US have been run through private insurance companies Our Ontario Board of course has always been publicly operated through a governmentappointed commission This has meant dramatic differences In tbe U S payout In benefits from the premium dollar has tended to run between per cent and per cent Here in Ontario It normally has topped 90 per cent Our Ontario Board also has tended to enjoy a reputation for good public spirit Traditionally the Injured workman has been the prime person In its considerations It has been respected as a humanitarian agency So much so that people from all over the world have come to the province to study It as a model For a period unhappily this fine record acquired some tarnish Under the regime of for mer chairman Bruce Legge the Board acquired a reputation for rigidity for being a rulebook organisation Now however the government appears to be very definitely determined to restore the Boards oil image The retirement of Mr and his replacement by former federal Labor Minister Michael Starr of course is old news by now But changes are going far beyond this For a quite new Work mens Compensation Act has been brought in And Its whole emphasis Is to restore the former stature of this organization of which we once were so proud The purpose is to give it Its old image In spades Membership of the board is to be extended so there will be sufficient bodies to give claimants quick service Then its powers are to be less legalistic Much more discretionary decision is to be given to the Board lis panels will be able to make their decisions much more on humanitarlsm and much less on rote Under mis new Act this board should once again be one of our great provincial prides We want to hold onto the old customs and traditions because thex strengthen our family ties bind us our friends make us one with all mankind for whom the Chtldwas born so we will not SPENDChristmas nor OBSERVE Christmas We will KEEP Christmas keep it as it is in all the loveliness of its ancient traditions We thank Cod for Christmas Would that it lasted alt year For on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day all the world is a better place and men and women are more lovable Love itself seeps into every heart and miracles happen And then you will remember what Christmas means the beginning of Christianity the Second Chance for the world the hope for peace the only way The promise that the angels sang is the most wonderful music the world has ever heard Peace on earth and good will toward men Georgetowns Bob was subject of a column by Milt Dunnell In the TorontoStar Bob was having a good year as a with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League YEARS AGO C Howard May was elected by ac clamation to serve Georgetown as reeve G Wesley Murray was elected by reeve Alio placed In office by acclamation was the entire council consisting of George Cleave George and William Wilson Dolores received a special Christmas gift from her brother Reg It wan brooch crafted by a British soldier who escaped with forces at Dunkirk but who lost both legs in the Art Speight rescued a baby duck from Highway where the bird had set down apparently to rest The duck christened Oswald weighed only two pounds The bird was in Speights garage where It took lo a diet of mash Mr and Mrs A H of Lindsay for several years he was leader of the Georgetown Band were honored by a message of gratitude from Queen for having given a home to a British war guest United Church Sunday school staged a Christmas concert under the direction of Mrs H Wrigglesworth Mrs Todd and Mrs Norman Burns COIT under the direction of Miss Margaret Evans staged a Christmas pantomime BILL SMILEY Ghosts Of Christmas Past Fondly Remembered When there are no kids around Christmas loses a lot of its excitement At least thats the way It seems around our house this year Weve always had a family Christmas most often at the farm of the grandparents Those were great old traditional festivities We drove to the farm left Ihe car at the highway and staggered through the snow up the lane to the house loaded with gifts The kids wrapped to Die noses were fairly hysterical by the time we entered the big warm farm kitchen There we were assailed by enveloping scents of roasting turkey and nine needles a wonderful com bination Then came the opening of presents with everybody protesting Oh you shouldnt nave Except the kids They would rip off the wrappings scarcely glance at the content and start looking under tree the LOT OP LOVE A lot love and thought went into the gifts and sometimes there were tears of pleasure The women talked a blue streak and caromed off each other as they charged around the kitchen The men sat around drooling And the children were the centre of attention funny and delightful and they loved It Then came the great orgy at the table with everyone from the littlest to Grandad tucking into the turkey and trimmings until their eyes were bulging This was sort of the climax of the holiday and like every climax It had its anti climax great stacks of dishes to be washed distended bellies exhausted kids In way it was a pretty pagan celebration Bui by evening everything was cleared up digestions quiet talk and a general feeling of warm and love and security This was the culmination of several weeks of Christ mas pageants and Christmas parties at the Legion Hall for the kids and writing cards to old friends and scrambling around for gifts and putting up the thriceblasted tree and pretending there werent going to be a lot of presents this year They were good times and I miss them but I dont know whether I could stand the pace any more I was working about twelve hours a day and there seemed to be a festivity or something every night There were a couple of Chrlslmases that are funny in retrospect though the there was a marked lack of Christian spirit BOUGHT One was the time we bought the television set for grandparents It was in early days of TV and we all chipped In to buy the set None of us could afford one for ourselves There was tremendous secrecy It was to be the surprise of the century My brotherinlaw and I dragged the great brute of a box up the lane on a toboggan and wrestled it into the farmhouse It was to be opened under the tree Kim was about three and full of that wild excitement that Invests kids at Christ mas We had barely deposited the big box In tbe house when she piped Hope you like the teebee Gran ny Some secret Some surprise INVITATIONS And there was tbe Christmas we held at our place The grandparents and the aunts and other assorted bodies were invited My wife hadspenl two hours the night before scrubbing and waxing the kitchen floor I had spent three hours preparing the turkey We were going to show them that we could All was In readiness The Old told me to take the turfc out of the oven I did skidded on the wax and roasting pan turkey and all went flying through the air Walltowall grease Turkey basted in floorwax It was one of the leu-memorable- moments In a happy marriage And I remember Christ- mases a long time ago In the Depression when a childs one and only present might be a suit of long underwear or a sweater Depressing was the Depression Of recent years our Mas have come straggling in from university sometime with a frfend for Christmas And weve had music and good food and fun ALL ALONE Last year we were alone If I remember correctly we dined on frozen meat pies I bought the usual two trees I got the little one up The big spruce was leased In a cornerand I threw It out on Boxing Day This year well be alone again But things are going to be different Son Hugh wont be home Hes off In deepest Quebec But hes had his present Daughter Kim wont be home because I dont particularly want my grandchild bom on a bus So Were flunking of closing up the Joint and going to ma city My wife can supervise the layette lean write cheques well stay In a hotel where somebody else right we might gat the fluent Cnrlitmaa present weve ever received A bouncing