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The Free Press Wednesday October WATERFALLS AT Everton sparkle In Sundays sunshine Many photographs were taken all through the district as families took Thanksgiving weekend drives to see the countryside In Its autumn hues Staff Photo Sugar and Spice by bill smiley i one of our truly important holidays is losing much of its religious significance and becoming more of a bacchanalian festival a last fling before melancholy autumn grips us in Jus frosty fingers The air as it was last weekend is more apt to be redolent of rye and roast turkey than of incense There are more people cussing on the golf course than praying on their knees church Despite this growing paganism Thanksgiving is about as good a time as any for stocktaking and I try to do it every year I hope do The Lord or whoever looks after the weather nearly seems to feel a bit benign toward us poor forked animals on Thanksgiving weekend Almost every year the holiday is a of golden sun shine and glorious colour This is enough to get on your knees for Im always humbly thankful that I live In a country where the seasons are so sharply defined And Im always doubly thankful that it isnt yet soggy November Be honest now What did you give thanks for this Thanksgiving Or did you Just go to a family reunion glut yourself on turkey and curse at traffic all the way home Or did you lust go for a drive in the country and burble over the foliage Or just crowd in a last game of golf or sad on the lake Or just shoot a bird or catch a fish Shame We should begin with the basics Just being alive is something to be ineffably thankful for Theres not much de vivre in the graveyard Forget that arthritis that insomnia that pimple on your nose Youll be a long time dead and you can spend all of it whining over your physical ailments To be sane or relatively sane in a world The Apeak cut By Rev Andrew McKenxie Of Knox Presbyterian Church THE ENEMY IS US Three or four decades ago a popular debate could be mustered on the subject of which has more control over human destiny our biological heritage or the environment in which we live Usually the decision went in favor of the former Today the reverse is true as we are becoming more aware though not too intelligently even yet of the despoliation of the water air and land about us On every side we are hearing voices and reading statements to indicate that mankind ia rapidly submerging himself in his own waste Pollution everywhere even in the air over the Arctic tundra and so befouled by contaminates such as sulphur dioxide are like New York and Toronto that an Actonian in his right mind would never desire to take up permanent residence in them A friend of the writer whose home is In the Bronx told me just the other day he would gladly move anywhere so that he could breathe dean air but there are serious obstacles in his way Mast be concerned The Christian man and theologian must be concerned about this frightening problem as well as the and the con servationist and it is heartening to know that in this week of Thanksgiving a group of theologians along with experts in the field of environmental control are meeting in conference in Ottawa to think more deeply about the problem and to attempt to give some assistance and counsel to those In government and elsewhere who must spearhead the fight against farther deterioration in our environment The easy thing is to point the finger at the large industries such as pulp and paper or to the dues of our nation such as Halifax Quebec City Hull and Victoria which today are dumping their raw sewage into the waters nearby The hard thing is to point the finger at ourselves and acknowledge with Walt Kellys that we have met the enemy and he is us HeiiuB All of us are litterbugs much too careless about the proper disposal of our garbage and we have simply no right to ask someone else even a giant industry to clean up his mess until we are ready to clean up our own But if I have made a determined and persistent effort to comply with the direc tions of antipollution campaigns I am in a strong position to demand that others will do the same So It comes back to the practice of the Golden Rule and the constant exercising of our human Responsibility The Christian religion personal responsibility for the world in which we live God gives us trees and flowers clear running waters and vast stretches of beautiful wilderness It is up to us to keep them in the condition they were when they came from His bountiful hand This will Involve intelligent awareness of all the manifold ways in which we can destroy these resources and ourselves along with them as well as persistent and unceasing effort on the part of all of us to preserve them Piecemeal or partial efforts will not suffice The problem will not be solved by shortterm antipollution cam paigns engaged in by a minority of the population It will only be solved by a total effort of all the people working at the Job full time I personally have a feeling of quiet confidence about this thing The first in stinct of man is selfpreservation and when his life is threatened as it most dearly now he will really work to survive Computers have been known to send threatening notes to Innocent citizens to work off their nasty tempers and it was not so long ago that a Leicester businessman was informed by a computer that he had won a competition for the highest milk yield of Guernsey cows In the United Kingdom From BBC Womans Hour One ot the things that puzzles me about our century Christian civilization is that we accept birth as a miracle but death as a disaster We accept the Hereafter but we avoid It like the bloody plague Australian writer Russell Braddon In a BBC TV interview Pag Whos being ridiculous One of the most ridiculous things we think the provincial government intends to do soon Is to exercise control over the wording of classified advertisements New legislation which will be In force by December states that advertisers may not place and publications many not print ad vertlsements limiting a position to a person of one sen or marital status unless an exemption for the iob has first been established Separate male female columns may continue with some changes For instance the Help Wanted Male Female columns should be changed to less prohibitive headings such as Job Primarily of Interest to Men Women In addition a neutral column such as Situations Vacant should be established to serve as a reservoir for jobs of Interest to both sexes Occupational groups shall not be segregated In separate male- female columns For Instance the column heading Sales Help Wanfed shall replace Sales Help Wanted Male Female Generic terms such as draft sman may still be used the in state with a dose of liberality If In doubt about a restrictive advertisement the Ontario Department of Labor advises each newspaper to check with their Womens Bureau directly Its survival day Today Is Survival Day And Actonians are as willing to oblige as anybody anywhere Its the day were to be con about our environment according to the literature that has come in here to the Free Press The articles ust about hit the waste basket along with many others that form a unique kind of paper pollution every week But then arent we wrong to think pollution Is what concerns just the big cities the big rivers and the big smokestacks The MillMain Willow traffic am is our own version of car pollution with Its attendant fumes If a few more people walked a few more blocks thered be less fumes less danger and less concern by merchants about where more parking space is to come from Our own small creeks run with detergent foam There are fewer birds butterflies and fish now There is hardly any part of Acton where there isnt some odor from one of several industries or from a combination of same In the night humming from machines run by night shifts in factories Is more We agree with the Fergus News Record which says the new restrictions will accomplish one thing sheer confusion Women will be applying for obs employers want men for and vice versa tt Is obvious that ap pllcafions will double creating more trouble for the breadwinner out of work And if an employer wants a woman rather than a man to work for him whats matter with that Or vice versa Hes entitled to be discriminating In his choice Do we detect the fine hand of the Womens Liberation Movement behind all this balderdash Or Is It simply government trying to placate all parts of the population with an election approaching than In the daytime Rural residents have found themselves nextdoor to noise they never anticipated Our own minor population crunch has produced two portable classrooms here for the first time course we brought It all on ourselves We wanted the cars the detergents the youngsters the products and employment of the factories What shall we do about Survival Day Survive first of course And think about it And be a little less selfish and self satisfied that seems insane is something for which we should send up paeans of praise Think of the poor lost creatures overflowing our mental places and thank God youre not among them Being alive and being sane then Other basics are shelter and food We dont give them much thought in this affluent country Almost nobody in this land is without shelter be it ever so humble And nobody is starving be he ever so hungry unless hes plain stupid The worst Thanksgiving ever spent was in October 1944 I t even think of Thanksgiving at the time I had Just received a thorough goingover for at tempting to escape from the Germans My nose pointed one way and one of my legs the other My hands and feet were tied It was very cold and there were no blankets Food was four slices of bread a day But looking back I realize I had lots to be thankful for 1 hod the roof of a boxcar overhead to keep out the rain until a night- fighter shot some holes In it I had enough food to stay alive and no steak has ever been as delicious as that black bread was alive young bloody but unbowed I should have been singing Bringing in the Sheaves What else should we be thankful for Certainly not the new car the new boat the new snowmobile the finer house These are trivia that we cant take with us Definitely we should be thankful for our children however much pain they have caused us We can t take them with us either but we can leave them and children and so on as testimony that we once lived and loved We should be deeply grateful that we live In a land where hatred and violence and prejudice are frowned upon rather than accepted as part of dally life We should be thankful fervently for real friends and good neighbors Not the type who pry and arc delighted when something is wrong but the stalwarts who rally round and give comfort when things are black or blue Perhaps I sound like a But you Just try it My wife has burned the stew andissnarly The bills are piling in I have a carbuncle in an extremely embarrassing and painful place But after counting blessings know 1 be humble and grateful For at least three days Off the cuff Long pipeline Recently some consideration was given to the Idea of bringing a pipeline ail the way up from Lake Ontario to bring water to Acton Milton and Georgetown Now consulting engineers com missioned by the Ontario Water Resources Commission have actually recommended a mile pipeline from Lake Erie to service Kitchener Waterloo Guelph and Brantford area Apparently the long pipeline could still be a possibility for Acton if as a Survival Day thought our ground water dried up 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday October 12 The teen club elected its executive including president Ted Tyler secretary- treasurer Patsy Chew committee Sid MacPherson Frank Jim Gunn Eileen Moore and Verna St Denis A most impressive ceremony was con ducted by Rev Currey assisted by his sister Rev Erla when furniture and new equipment were dedicated Donations included communion table baptismal font lectern drape memorial plaque in memory of Rev Pickering pictures in memory of Miss Bertha Speight and Mr J C Mat thews altar desk chapel chairs vases Bible in MemoryofStaffSrgt 30 choir gowns ministers gown etc The old building at the school will be razed to make room for a new addition the school board decided Miss Rita Fuller has purchased Acton Beauty from Elda Dickenson 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday October Numbers of our spent Thanksgiving In digging up their private waterworks and trenches and connecting up their homes with the mains This is nutting time and the boys and girls are laying in their stores for winter evenings Beechnuts butternuts and walnuts arc being gathered with hlckon nuts a few miles below the mountain Two found it unprofitable to keep a supply of liquor in their cellar Both were charged by magistrate H Moore with being intoxicated in a public place Both had imported their liquor from Montreal Rev T Albert Moore has been elected vice president of the World Brotherhood Federation The massive memorial is almost A few are their neigh bors by letting their chickens run at Urge Father Goodrowa Harvest Home festival opened in the town hall but night years ago Taken from the of the Free Press Thursday October 1895 The annual exhibition of Acton Hor ticultural and Agricultural Sodety was held here last Tuesday and Wednesday and was a gratifying success to all concerned Acton had on Its best bib tucker The rapid strides made of late in new buildings and the ex tension of our most important manufac tories formed a subject of general remark and our enterprising citizens express their intention of keeping up the pace being firmly convinced there is a bright future for Acton The hall presented a fairy scene of panoramic beauty The tasteful arrangements of a large number of exhibits evergreens and flowers and the brilliant illumination by Rochester lamps and Chinese lanterns each added its quota to the Music was liberally discoursed by Acton Cornet Band and by the musicians at Kellys exhibits of pianos and organs On the whole it was perhaps the best exhibit we have ever had The show of ap ples was the best for years Bread pastry and butter made an excellent showing The steam merrygoround did a thriving business Yesterday the weather was bright and warm and visitors began arriving in the early morning The show of stock was fully THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE and Ed up to standard The entries of horses was unusually good The fair concert was in progress last night as we went to press A gambling den exists In town which should have the attention of the proper authorities Gamblers from Georgetown and Milton and other towns frequent the place as well as the local sports A young man recently arrived In town and who imagined he was smarter than he proved lost the ftaM IT WAS THE look even tor little girls In In this photograph are Rose Mrs Shepherd Doris Brlstow Mrs Fred George Bristow and Jack Brlstow