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Page HILLS Friday Jnnel Hills Tbeir Outlook Outlook published each Friday by Herald home or Halloa Mils a division Newspaper Company Limited it Gaelph Georgetown Ontario Second nail Mail Registered Number 2202 8772201 PUBLISHER Don Brander ADVERTISING MANAGER CarlSinke EDITOR Dave Sharon Marshall CLASSIFIED Terry Colter Elaine STAFF WRITERS Anl PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT Dave Hastings PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Myles Annie OLsen Mary Foreman Wendy ACCOUNTING Brian MacLeod No happy moments for Grit Party If there Is one politic comment that should be swallowed with a pound of salt not simply a grain Eta this one from the lips of Liberal Leader John Turner about the Meech Lake accord The more public debate the better Well if Liberal MPs and senators along with assorted party officials and other heavyweights were to keep their mouths shut perhaps Mr Turner would welcome more public debate But considering what this particular debate has doni to him so far Its well nigh impossible to 1m why he might want more of it In his more prayerful I suspect he is pleading for silence As leader the Meech Lake accord has brought him nothing but trouble He can get much Joy from watching the popularity of the Mulroney govern tumble In the wake of the cord when the popularity of his Liberal opposition party is tumbling even faster oddity for an par Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod You may have noticed that in the last Gallup Poll the Tories dropped two percentage points while the Liberals dropped three And this lame after the Liberals had an earlier poll analyzed by computers and were told that If an election were held then there would likely be a minority NDP government Make no mistake these are not happy times for the Liberals When for Instance was the last time you heard of a federal party ex eaitive writing to MPs asking them to support their leader The mere fact that Liberal President Michel Robert felt such a letter was necessary doesn do much for the leaders Image NOT FIRST If the division over the Meech Lake accord was the first for the Liberal caucus It reflect so unfavorably on Mr Turner But the party is also split on the issue of free trade and there was an open division when the Commons voted on cruisemissile testing It s virtually Impossible for a political party to publicly disagree on anything without the question of leadership arising The constitutional accord Is par ticularly divisive because of the in volvement of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau who detests the document and still has a sizeable number of devoted followers In Ihc party when Mr Trudeau went public with some criticism of the accord the smoldering tent within the Liberal caucus began exploding Into the open Right now the caucus is talking about else One session dominated by Mr Turner pleas for party unity in sup port of the accord went on for five hours Far from achieving success Ihe discussions seemed to widen the cracks And unfortunately they arc generally along groups of Liberal MPs have been meeting privately to discuss the accord and while there are automatic denials about leader ship being at issue there is no tlon the subject is never far from mind Some MPs including several who stoutly supported the leader at last Novembers convention were furious when Mr Turner said Liberals would be proposing amend to the accord but if they were defeated the party would support the It anyway And that said one unhappy Grit the same as telling the government not to pay any attention to our amendments we II support you come hell or high water The comment clearly played havoc with party morale FURIOUS EFFORTS A reporter who called every Liberal MP is convinced a ma tori of them oppose the accord as It ex 1st But Mr Turner disagrees He only about lo of them arc Bulldog Jones perfect to replace President One Omans view But even for a leader to admit that a quarter of his caucus disagrees with his position Is singula In Canadian politics And were talking only of elected MPs here When you get to the Liberaldominated Senate many of whose occupants were put there by Pierre Trudeau the opposition Is even stronger I know Iho perfect replacement or Ronald Reagan The candidate is tough knowledgeable and has stamina plus It Bulldog Jones my grandmother It was watching Reagan on v that triggered the idea A friend commented on what a job Reagan was doing considering his age I said Grandma who In every category Bulldog Jones always Bulldog Jones She used to be Grand ma Jones to us Maggie Jones to her peers But this Christmas somebody made a diplomatic faux pas that rll her badly and Grandma banging her fist on the dining room table said enough was enough she was getting tough No more Grandma Jonesl Its Bulldog Jones from now on Bulldog went on a couple of days later to play Santa at a gathering of 100 The original Santa a hearty yearold dldn show and none of the younger mare fit males were will Ing the beard and persona Grandma I can t keep her calling her Bulldog doesn respectful showed her colors and rallied to the resue She good In an emergency situation a necessity for president She charmed all the kiddlesokay maybe she scared a pleased every Charisma falrc all assets for a president She a bard worker Not afro to get her hands wet or dirty When she retired she become a livein babysitter for a select clientele who needed someone to stay with their while they went She stopped that around an no because she wan ted to have a little fun Then she took up pool the kind with a cue nd the wet kind Before heading off to the seniors pool hall shed swim a mite every morning From there It was bowling or lodge meetings or Bingo or lust shopping riding the underground rails the She has nonstop energy and curiosity She insists she wants to leamtowalerski She can t sit still She repaper her dining room at least once every six months If she not shampooing her carpet the a painting the kitchen The woman Is a dynamo When I was transferred out West six years ago she jumped at the op portunity to drive out with me She d never seen the Rockies and although It meant she d have to sit in the front of a for six days she was all for the adventure I have to admit I felt a whole lot safer traveling across Canada with her as copilot The woman has grit and patience Not once In the entire trip did she ask me to stop to use the ladies room or for a coffee or lo stop and I ask her if she wanted to stop soon and she was all way Whatever I wanted whenever I wanted I was he driver and shed adjust to my schedule A president like this would endear herself to many But she also knows when to stand tough One night a year ago on a Toronto bus the driver was arguing with a teenager who was refusing to his fare The driver mov the bus until he paid Grandma got riled and marched up to the guy telling him to get off the bushe was holding everyone up and the driver moving until he paid so he better pay up or get off When who is or so gets angry look out No pussy rooting around for her The guy ran and away they went This woman reads the morning papers every day and knows every side to every issue no slouch when It comes to politics and social Issues She wants a return of the lash for rapists Forget throwing in jail Give them the lashes rub salt in It That make think twice For oil this toughness a woman of love and will always take time out Irom her busy schedule of doing pushups on the living room floor or entertaining us with her singing and dancing and kibitzing to out someone In need Without though for herself she nursed sick and dying friends and relatives and runs immediately and unselfishly to the aid of any trouble She make a fine leader Start the wave now Bulldog Jones for dent I Letters Going back to school I Uriel High School student are not all teenagers are mature pupils returning to school The Following Is an essay by one adult about experiences of going back ItSltmUBEH Special It was a challenge to be able to go back to school We worried about gelling through the fear of moving around the halls between all the teenagers Wc had questions like What will they think of us com back to school Do they think thai we invade their ter r How will the teachers react When I started those questions comfortable and at home in our own A I I civs ALP stands for Adult Learners Program had a nice variety of ages and backgrounds and fitted well together We shared thoughts and opinions as we became more familiar to one another I came into a program that had already started a couple of weeks earlier I was interested in the sub ject of French You might wonder why Tho reason Is I meet so many people who arc French and here I am with my mouth full of nol able to put In use all that I learned ago When we are hoi daylng we always come across a lot of French speaking people You might call it curiosity Yes I am curious Con this knowledge be made practical I called the number available in Board of Education to in about updating my education from Europe I hate the equivalent of Grade 10 since wc only have six Junior grwlcs overseas Wc started French In the fth grade and when wc came into high school they were going very fast over all they bad learned already That is six years that I was exposed to the French language I was disap pointed after my call to find out that the night classes got a start but at the same time I was told that a special adult class was I was Invited In come In and meet the group and the teacher I did go the next day and met the people but 1 felt very unsure about starting all day What about oil my other ac tivities 1 went one Friday very hesitantly to see what It was about At the end of the day I had already made up my mind I was really going to try had a terrific teacher I must tell ul She encourage ihusiastic herself and very helpful The subjects we had together were Mathematics Computer data entry and some typing and employment skills My husband noticed also a big difference in me I was enthusiastic and determined I am happy to be here and have some new friends he first semester we hid an In choose the subjects named The that I Some Geography Law Typing Sociology Arts amity Now we were going to go the high school students In their mother big thing for U Wt w but got used lo it the strange teachers i full load and we found out thai homework is cosy to f time for But Is here you find a way and cjustdl llhit all looking forward to the carefree summer holidays but I bet when summer is over we will be happy to go back again