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Editorial Page Judge allround performance We have been asked why The Free Press does not follow the policy of some other newspapers and publish our choice of the candidates up for municipal election The answer Is of course that we think voters should make their own selection based On the Information they acquire through a term of office This newspaper endeavors to cover Council Hydro and Board of Education meetings In an objective manner Liberal doses of quotes are used In reports to show where members of the various bodies stand concerning different Issues which arise through a term of of fice These are designed to both brighten the story and aid readers to make up their minds on the quality of representatives they have elected but they are often edited to convey the Idea and conserve space without losing the sense We are sometimes on the end of uncomplimentary remarks from members of council because we have used one part of a statement and not published THIS BRIDGE OVER STILL WATERS may not be the subject of a modern ballad but like all bridges It links two shores and Its rustic appearance makes an at tractive span The bridge Is part of the attractions at the Breezes on Fairy Lake Photo by Bill Stuckey There a not nearly enough space here to but 1 give you a skeleton and you can fill In the flesh Young people of today as we all know dont want to do anything the way their elders did It This includes getting married Most still stick to the traditional service but many modern wedding ceremonies are completely different from the timehonored and time worn ceremony that most of us endured Nowadays InWl hearing the organ triumphantly booming Here Comes the you may be startled but shouldn be surprised to hear someone belting out Hey with guitar the comforting traditional and often anachronistic passages in the orthodox ceremony you may hear an erotic poem by Leonard Cohen you see the men lined up to kiss the groom on both cheeks and shake hands with the bride In many ways I agree with the trend I had the devil own time with my wife before our nuptial vows were finally nuptlallzed She wanted the obey deleted from the phrase love honor and obey and fought me right up to the altar where she muttered It only to avoid a scene And of course she has never obeyed me since Another bit that got her back up was With my body I thee honor spoken by the groom only She took it the wrong way and thought it a perfect example of male vanity In sickness and in health is another howler that could be Jettisoned When I practically dying with the flu she has less sympathy than she would have for a rat tlesnake making Its death rattle And if there s anything I can t stand it having a sick wife around the place ajid not getting the The last bit of farce at our wedding was when the preacher being a little coy looked at me and asked Would you care to salute the bride It was an Anglican ceremony and I was a bit at sea anyway In addition I was just out of the air force where salute meant Just that I gawked at him as he repeated the question Well I thought if this is the way these Anglicans do it OK made a smart left turn and was about to whip up a snappy salute when my bride who knew the damn fool was telling me to kiss her solved the situation by grabbing me around the kissing me It was a beautiful kiss I got a mouthful of her veil and that about But with my personal experience and In view of the divorce rate today Id go further than the modern kids do Not only would I bring the service up to date I insist on an airtight contract to be signed by both parties before they swore to anything id Pepper by hartley coles I always interested in the press releases which pass over my desk most of which end up In the waste basket or File 13 as it is known around here There astounding information in some of the contents but mere is also some real down-to- earth research For Instance this week an item from the Ontario Department of Trade and Commerce purports to have pinpointed the average Ontario woman This Is an astounding feat for no woman likes to be thought of as average But Mrs Liiah who wrote the release wriggles out of that one by stating that although the following statistics are average the women they supposedly represent are very much individuals So here they are in case you are interested in comparing Miss or Mrs Average Ontario with all the Miss Individualists of the province She Is five foot 4 Inches tall and weighs 133 lbs She eats calories a day and is always going on a diet The Ontario woman annually consumes 160 lbs of meat eggs lbs of sugar seven lbs of cheese lbs of potatoes 100 lbs of fruit lbs of bread 21 lbs of coffee quarts of milk U hot dogs bottles of pop 14j packs of cigarettes ounces of borne of the things Mrs Average t like to hear and which mere husbands knew all along watches television five hours a day spends a year of her life on the telephone uses worth of cosmetics spends one and a half times as much on clothing as her husband charges SO per cent of her purchases and returns per cent of them Ontario women spend or influence the spending of an estimated cents of every retail dollar After statistics like that it makes you wonder why those same cuddly little bits of fluff give old Dad a bleak look when he hoists two or three more than he should on Saturday night MY INTEREST IN FLYING saucers which extends to reading the odd article about sightings after I seen something odd hanging there In the sky was stimulated again by a picture and story which appeared in a chiropractic sheet entitled Heahh for life Chiropractor C Aiken of Beach Florida built a flying saucer for his son Walter from mall order plans Guess what he called it What else its the Slipped Disc thoughts In full Space requirements often dictate the extent of coverage but we feel on the whole that our coverage Is fair Impartial and directed towards Informing the public of the of their elected candidates It isn t always possible to cover all sides of an Issue Sometimes they are fully discussed at committee meetings but receive little or no comment when the matter appears before a regular meeting This Is understandable when you take Into account the amount of business which councils especially are called on to expedite but we note with alarm an Increasing trend towards this way of operating at all levels of municipal government We have always felt that public business should be transacted in the open so the public can decide for Itself on the basis of the arguments presented whether their elected representatives were living up to their responsibilities Sometimes it can lead to arguments and suggestions the press Is washing dirty linen In public And we often have to retort we are only reporting the facts On the other hand It Is also wise to remember that councils school boards commissions and other elected bodies are mainly composed of people with full time jobs who are trying often under great odds to competently carry out a political commitment They are not infallible Like all of us some can endure criticism others are pretty thin skinned Although we have no comments to make about the Individual candidates we suggest that all should be judged on their overall performance through a term rather than on some Isolated Incident where perhaps they appeared to be off the mark New candidates of course are a different matter Selection here is more difficult They often bring new qualities Into the political arena and it is up to the voter to make a decision on the basis of the information he possesses about each individual Need more than wreath ITEM If either party suffers from cold feet he or she will refer to a hot water bottle rather than shock treatment to the party of the second part ITEM It will clearly be understood who is to put out the garbage who will get up to close the window who will get up to shut up the baby who will get the on opening day of the trout season ITEM Neither partner shall spend more than ten minutes during each hours telling the other partner what a hell of a day had at workborne ITEM She will not say more than once week You never say you love me any more And he will refrain from replying Certainly I love you now will you quit bugging me about If ITEM Neither party will promise the kids something ridiculous then confront the partner with a fait accompli ITEM The male partner may invite anyone for a drink or dinner regardless of hair curlers the house is a mess there s not a thing in the house to eat or you might have a little consideration for me ITEM Males will refrain from shouting violently Why is there never any peace around here Females will not hit except in the clinches I have scars Carry on chaps I Just begun There money Jealousy sulking teasing nagging backseat driving decorating There have been far too many books written about sex and marriage Let get down to the realities The darn thing really files about 15 inches above the ground It travels up to 15 miles per hour over land or water on a cushion of air Wonderful what you can get by mail order these days ON THE SUBJECT of unidentified flying objects which are merely flying things which no one has identified our contemporary in Milton the Canadian Champion recently poked fun at a UFO sighting with this little bit of A staffer on the paper wondered what would happen if A UFO was seen by the OPP and they put out an APB through the RCMP in case the UFO driver The who was at the in heard their APB and told the UN to send an SOS to the USSR in case the UFO was escaping from with the aboard Then the CIA in the USA told our DOT that all was AOK It was Just a former helicopter that used to do V05 commercials now on a PR campaign for the and the So the story on the sighting of the UFO hold any H20 after all A headline writer nightmare Off the cuff Although man has developed communications to a point almost beyond belief he Is often still mystified by what the driver ahead Intends to do at the next In We can t agree more with an editorial in the St Mary s Journal Argus that something more than a wreath Is required for Remembrance Day No doubt many old sweats stood before the cenotaph across the nation wondering just when the federal government was going to get around to placing something more sustantial into the hands of disabled war veterans who must find It pretty difficult to subsist on allowances doled out now The Journal Argus comments while we pay homage to the dead once or twice each year the living are very plainly being ignored by the federal government It is significant that the poverty line la d down by the Economic Council of Canada In 1968 was set at 1 for a single person Although Inflation has raised that figure the single disabled veteran on the Allowance Act receives a miserly allowance of 1 740 per year The 196B poverty line was set at S3 but the most a married veteran can receive is the princely sum of per year Is this the type of treatment an affluent country doles out to those who serve in times of distress Is the delay being caused by niggardly efforts to save money Is the thought behind the delay that the more time consumed reflecting over proposed Increases the less the scheme will cost World War 1 has been over for years World War for 25 years every day a few more veterans cross the great divide and save the country dollars Canadians help the starving and dest tute in almost every corner of the globe with millions Yet we let our own veterans eke out a miserable existence at below poverty line level We would hope needy veterans do not have to wait for a redesign of the welfare system to receive a worthwhile increase In pensions the country has a moral obligation to years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday November 23 The annual commencement exercises of Acton high school were presented to a capacity audience in the town hall last Friday Certificates were presented to students eight trophies were awarded and students were made members of the Never Late Never Absent club A oneact play Ada Gives First Aid directed by Miss I with a cast of Yvonne Ritchie Jennings Audrey Wilkinson Chris Lamb Pat Terry Jim Greer and Rod Force was hilarious The school orchestra and Glee club provided musical entertainment under the direction of Crawford Douglas Athletic displays were presented directed by R Doyle and Mrs M J Eleada was valedictorian Dick Wood president of the Literary Society presented her with the valedictory medal Rev R H Armstrong gave the address Mildred Armstrong and Whitney Cook received honor secondary school graduation diplomas Secondary school diplomas were presented to Jean Armstrong Bob Bruce Yvonne Brunelle Anthony Cole Donald Davidson Fred Fur and Shuley Thompson Coupons are being given out with sales for a big Christmas draw under the Retail Merchants branch of the Board of Trade Cha is Bradley with vicechairman and Ken secretary treasurer On the executive are Rae West Frank Van Wyck Ernie Marks Bill Talbot and Harold Elliott Lome Garner Vic Bert Hinton Roy Goodwin Sid Eisen and Ken Bickell 50 years ago Mb Cm It Coin Don Editor Mnor Copyright Taken from the the Free Thursday December 2 1920 The tragic shooting of T James Moore who was mistaken for a deer at resulted fatally In Sudbury last Thursday morning He was the city manager of Guelph and had relatives here He wore the regulation bright blue coat and trousers and red cap and it Is difficult to understand how such a deplorable mistake could be made A German howitzer was delivered to the Great War Veterans Association last week and is now stationed at the front door of the Soldiers Community house There it guards the entrance and is a constant reminder of the horrors of war days The French inscription on the arch way of the entrance to the building Apres la Guerre now seems to have a more appropriate setting Miss Jean of Acton high school has been awarded the silver medal for the best essay written by pupils under 13 years of age In the province of Ontario Little Miss wrote the essay on her favorite season while a pupil in Miss Bennett entrance room The Duke of Devonshire chapter of the I O D E held a very successful tea at the home of Mrs Lake Ave The last Issue of the Canadian Guardian plays a worthy compliment to Douglas Gowdy of Limehouse now a teacher on the staff of Kitchener public school Toronto and a volunteer boys worker at the Broad as the kind of young man any city can be proud of Reenforce concrete spans are a remarkable feature of bridges on the new Toronto to Hamilton highway The road was constructed to relieve unemployment after the war vehicles a day used the previous route and traffic now exceeds 8000 vehicles a day 75 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday November Thanksgiving next Thursday Rev Father thefirst priests to minister to the congregation of St Josephs church in their old church at Dublin died in Guelph He was born In France in and came to Quebec in He came to Guelph and the work establishing and looking after the outside missions fell to him at Fergus Garafraxa Arthur Mt Forest Peel Georgetown Acton Preston Gait Berlin Elmira Drayton etc Travel was mostly by horseback and on foot On the 17th of May last the golden Jubilee of Father Dumortier s ordination was celebrated in Fifty years ago this month Thomas of and Eliza Clark daughter of the late John Clark Georgetown were united in holy wedlock In Toronto This happy event was commemorated by a pleasant gathering of relatives and friends at the home of the aged couple corner Main and John SC The baptism of a grandchild added extra interest to the occasion Mr came to Canada In 1S43 and settled In Acton wlthhisyoungwtfelnlB48 He worked at the trade of stonemason for years He built the first brick house In Acton still standing at the entrance to the school lane He also built the Methodist church at A number of men eight or ten of Acton Company have received notice of the termination of the engagement Two reasons are given a dull leather market and the Introduction of labor saving machinery The effort has evidently been as far as possible not to disturb married men The fine new Grace church at Milton is opened The secretary of Erin school board wrote an applicant is to high Off the cuff Time lost due to strikes In Canada appears to be reaching a new high John writes In The Financial Post This comes curiously enough when unem ployment is high and when fourth quarter job prospects are not good To the end of August work stoppages had cost Canada 5 million man days about per cent of total time worked This year s eight month total Is running 5 per cent over the comparable figure The loss for the year In 1 million manday was the highest on record In Canada An electric car is being built In Oshawa that can go anywhere In the country according to a story noted by the Ontario Safety League all you need is a 3000 mite extension cord