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Coles I Slaw Why not decent benefits Acton Free- Press Wednesday October Ive Just got back from a three week whirlwind our of Western Europe to places Ive always dreamed about going and It has convinced me that Canada despite any shortcomings it might have Is still the Remised Land In company with my wife and another couple Mr and Mrs Charles Perry I slapped through parts of England Holland West Germany Austria Italy Switzerland and France by courtesy or plane and the efficient European railway system never spending more than three days in any one place I visited London and Amsterdam sailed down the Rhine for four days making side trips to Cologne Worms Heidelberg and helped open the Oktoberfest In Munich Germany visited the lavish palaces In Europes prettiest country Austria toured Vienna marvelled at the Vatican In Rome stood on the spot where Caesar was stabbed climbed the Alps in Switzerland got fuddle in Paris and wondered as we visited Windsor Castle In England where the last three weeks had I stood In awe as we visited Colognes magnificent cathedral shopped In taxfree Zurich toured Amsterdams beautiful canal system sat in an open air care in Romes lavish Via Vcneta threw an English penny in the Fountain and tried to speak and figure out the language and currency In the different countries And I came home convinced that despite the advantages and the civilization Europe enjoyed for centuries before North America was discovered that Canada Is still very much my home We planned the trip purposely so we would have to meet the people in these countries and live and deal with them fron day to day We had been advised that It would be much more convenient to take a planned tour with the services of guides and have reserved hotel rooms But we figured what the heck Why not have some sort of adventure before we had one foot in the grave So se planned the first half of our itinerary then decided we would act the part of Itinerant travellers on the last half trusting we could discover accommodation and figure out what we were doing There were Incidents like the one in Rome where we tried to send baggage on to Zurich and ran bangsmack right Into the language barrier It started innocently enough as we piled the bags on scales and were asked to fill out our forwarding address which we did But something was wrong One part was missing and neither the Italians nor we stupid Canadians could figure It out Before knew it a full scale argument raged with Charlie taking on the power and might of the Italian railroad system A baggage clerk and I tried to sort the whole thing out in halting French with which both of us were only vaguely familiar If you have ever been to Italy youll know that an argument Is food for the soul The one such as we staged soon had the whole baggage room of the huge station in Rome all agog Along came a gendarme in full dress uniform cocked hat and all and waited patiently while we tried to sort it out A crowd soon gathered as the heat of the argument increased II was a crisis in international relations when two pretty Swedish girls resident in Borne for only three months politely asked If they could help Both sides in the quarre threw up their hands end poured complaints to the gals They listened patiently Then smiling they explained to us that these nice Italian gentlemen with the scowls merely wanted us to print the place we would be staying in Zurich on the label so proper papers could be filled out We were amazed At no other place did we have to give a forwarding address other than the city where we would pick up the Fortunately it was one time had reserved ahead and Charlie had the name of the hotel with him We hastily compiled But while this ensued the lineup to the baggage room was getting larger and larger Several of the customers started to take sides Some favored us while others nidging by their looks took the side of the Italian railroads Some including the were annoyed that two dumb could upset the whole system which had obviously been handed down and perfected in the days of the Caesars The Canadian railroads wouldnt use such a system snarled Charlie a trifle upset But we use it in Sweden too said one Swede and it works well Anyway Charlies bags were processed to Zurich while the gendarme tapped his fingers in exasperation on the counter Somehow another exasperated Roman bad slipped in between Charlie and I When the clerk got to my despatch a replica of Charlies and he had to repeat the entire process he threw up hit hands in despair told off the other clerk and threatened to quit on the spot I apologized in my best French It wasnt enough In rapid Italian be said it was too bad ptplc like us came to a country without a word of Italian The guy behind me obviously on our Continued in Pag PRETTY GIRLS and pets have long been recognized as the most popular subjects for photographers Here are two more winners in the Free Press fall fair photo competition The girls frolicking in the waterfall above were photographed by H Haslett The pony trapped over a horse had its pre dicament pictured by Beth Thomson MiniComment Adjudicators comments on the appearance of the Acton Citizens Band at the CNE besides providing some specific comment on the piece of music as it was played offer some further to the local group This is a good band The playing abilities of course vary throughout the band but these young players are playing very well You must be proud of them wrote Adjudicator When we realize Acton is one of the few centres in that doesnt benefit from an instrumental music program in its high school those responsible for the local band deserve special commendation and encouragement for providing Acton with its own citizens band When workmen applied the finishing touches to Bower Ave this week they capped a program which makes the street with its cement sidewalks curbs and billiard table road a model for other Acton streets The long preparation and discussions over the appearance were well worth waiting for and council deserves a special pat on their collective backs for preserving many of the trees which give the street added character THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office There is a myth being propagated these days that most of the un employed people collecting payments of to a week are shirkers who dont want to work The charge has been heard and re heard in the hustings during the curr ent election Probably it Is partly true There have always been those who would sponge on the public purse rather than work But wc wonder how much the char ges have been exaggerated How many ablebodied people do you personally know living off unemployment insurance who have turned work down This writer could only think of two Both had a history of job jumping and long periods of unemployment before unemployment benefits jumped to their present level Any other unemployed person we know would be eager to take any decent paying job in order to survive Voull notice we aid decent paying Job Wc also wonder how much of the current flack about unemployment insurance benefits is being spread by those employers who never did pay a living wage expecting employees to get by with meagre earnings Certainly they have reason to show chagrin One weekly newspaper has said that Canada is saddled with a situation in which employers all over the country arc begging for enough competent help to keep businesses goingwhile the incentive to do the work has been largely destroyed by such rewards for unemployment Such nonsense Does the editor think wc should go back to the days when an unemployed man struggled on a week to keep the wolf from the door Would he like to live on 30 bucks a week Let him try iL Unemployment in at least per cent of the cases Is not the choice of the individual involved Moat would rather work for a living and retain their self respect Why should society decide that the man or woman who la unemployed must Just scrape by on a meagre dollar Why not a decent benefit the urge to get out and fend for oneself has been seriously diluted by the higher unemployment insurance benefits for some but wc seriously doubt that It anywhere near app roaches the levels some have been suggesting during the current election campaign For hose who continue to advocate lower unemployment Insurance bene fits for this is what It amounts to we would suggest they be allowed to live on that amount for a year Then could all see how much this sapped their initiative From hot to palazzo pants After putting women into pants two years ago designers cant get them back into dresses again The fashion industry reports The Financial Post has created a monster Fashion excitement is all in the pants First it was hot pants then along came this falls baggy pants The new est craze is palazzo owing pyjamas that look like a long skirt except where they are split In the middle With the women wearing the pants the most danng innovation the man of the world has come out with is a switch from flared back to stovepipe trousers which is hardly likely to set the fashion world on Tire It takes some people a long time to realize that they are completely dispensable I realized it but keep forgetting until something jolts me Today its the mother and father of all colds I havent missed a days work In about three years at times tottering off to the job with one foot in the grave For some reason I had the conceit to imagine that the enure English department if not the whole school system would crack crumble and collapse if I werent there Common sense tells me that if I were ill for a month nobody would know the dif ference and that if I dropped dead this moment the human race would not falter for a second in its pursuit of folly happiness and ail the other things that make ft tick So here I am surrounded by soggy Kleenex coughing up chunks of lung and sweating like a muleskinner every time I do anything more vigorous than blink my eyes But its not all bad My wife is dancing attendance on me something she rarely does because Im almost never ill I have a good foolish detective story which Id normally never have time to read And perhaps most important of all I have this lazy hazy feeling that I have stopped the world and got off even if only for four hours My wife has Just forced on me quite against my a large libation of hot water lemon sugar and some sort of cough medicine with the odd name of Teachers Highland Cream It makes me sweat but certainly eases the cough In fact it makes life look almost rosy I hope she doesnt run out of lemons And stuff We have talked about this subject before in these columns and decided that if the women want to wear pants there is not much male chauvinist porkers can do about it except plaia And maybe it is the complaints that are sending women to the clothing stores with pants on their minds Pants are outselling skirts about five to one Indicating that this could be a fashion revolution such as has never been seen before Perhaps if all the fashionconscious men of the world decided they would wear kilts instead of trousers the women would get the message that men also like women in skirts One young hot Canadian designer thinks that women must be as tired of wearing pants as she is of designing Smiley that we go through life or the biggest part of It with this feeling that were so important when were less than ants on the face of the earth Businessmen flog themselves daily to meet the competition Executive and lawyers drag home their brief cases Doctors burn themselves out in twenty years of inordinately long hours Teachers develop ulcers or quietly go mad Why dont we all relax a little more often and let the earth take a few spins without us Perhaps the most guilty of all are politicians Right now the country resembles a disturbed beehive as our politicians hurtle about every one of them convinced that his constituency his party and his country will go to the dogs if he personally is not elected God forbid but what would actually happen if Lewis and Caouette had a fourway air collision which is not an impossibility at the rate theyre about their homeland Would we just have to throw up our hands and sell the country to the highest bidder Fat chance be enough power- hungry men and women or just plain idiots them But unless there is a big change in the next few months her sentiments arc not likely to be shared Winter Is and the gals will prefer to wear something warm around their legs than skimpy nylons It will be pants We can predict with some accuracy tha if there is a changeover from pants to skirts it will take place in the warm er months when pants get hot Thats bow we got hot pants which instead of concealing the legs gave them more freedom than they have had since Eve stepped out of her cocoon Besides one attractive lady told us the reason she wears pant suits Is be cause the pants conceal the runs in her stockings Now how can you argue with logic such as that to fill their shoes before the bits were picked up Nobody is irreplaceable The sky didnt fall in when the British kicked their great wartime leader Winston Churchill out of office The States didnt disintegrate after the deaths of Lincoln Roosevelt Kennedy When Joe Stalin finally expired Russia didnt exactly hit the skids It seems that the only way to stay off that treadmill of feeling Indispensable is to be poor The fewer our possessions the freer look at the wonderful world we live in and realize that we are about as individually important as grains of sand I have a fellow just like that sitting downstairs talking to mother He drifted in this morning from Montreal Hes off to Alaska to spread the faith How is he going to get there Well If he can get to by Friday hell catch a ride north with some friends I point out that there is no way short of flying of getting to in two days Oh well he may hitchhike going through northern Saskatchewan He got the hint that I wasnt going to loan him air fare What was he going to take Well he has a sleeping bag and a sweater and jeans and boots and its only about three thousand miles so theres no problem Hes been to Mexico New Orleans New York and across Canada from coast to coast His total assets are those listed above Physical that Is On the other hand hes completely bilingual and has an education no university could provide Best of all he knows dearly that he is not indispensable A casual visitor would have had trouble telling whether Saturdays County plowing Match was a gathering of politicians or a furrow content The match and subsequent banquet attracted two cabinet ministers the Hon George Kerr and the Hon Jim Snow from Halton West and East respectively Halton Bud Whiting the three candidates from Halton Wcnlworth and a host of local politicians including Warden Jim from Burlington One farmer noting the numbers suggested there might be an election PC candidate Bill Kemplmg showed he could plow the furrow of all the who competed first prize in the new businessmen and professional class Although there has been much discussion about the imminence of regional government Tuesdays bore strong evidence that the imminence of winter may be more topical sooner than we would like The Ontario Safety league notes it is to be hoped that walking never becomes a lost art We will always to get from the house to the Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from the of the Free Press of Thursday October It was 86 the shade Friday A year ago it snowed The boys who go about the town in the evenings throwing peas at the windows of residences and thus frightening nervous women and their will find in the lock up one of these nights The constables are on the alert for them The town of Windsor Nova Scotia is a waste of smoking ruins Fire started in a barn and destroyed the entire town Of the scores of people who use the Methodist church sheds for their teams only two put in an appearance Monday assist in gravelling the shed and its approaches The bus load of Georgetown High School pupils who drive down daily from Acton took the notion to do Enn Fair last Friday instead of spending the day in the usual High School routine And they went When they were pupils in the public school such inversion would have been dubbed as hookey fair was held at Campbell on Tuesday David McKeisie died at at the age of He was one of the oldest settlers The widow of the late George also died at She was an old settler and wtdeh known Deceased had been suffering from internal trouble for several years Mr and Mrs Moore entertained the members of their Methodist morning class to the number of between 60 and on Monday evening Nov has been appointed Thanksgiving Day Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday October 1KZ The Young Peoples Society of Knox church have engaged Jack Miner the bird man to give one of his characteristic lec tures in December Dr and Mrs W Somerville and children arrived here last week from As they lost their home and all its contents including all their clothing excepting what they wore when they hurriedly escaped from the fire area Mrs Somerville and the children will spend the winter there The Dr tells pathetic stones respecting the clean sweep of the fire the rapidity with which it enveloped homes the losses of homes com forts separation of families and the failure to escape of so large a number He was engaged in fighting the fire but hurried home to get his family in the car and drive them beyond the fire area By the time be returned in about ten minutes his bouse was engulfed in flames The town was swept over in the course of an hour Hundreds who had gone into the lake as the only place of safety were wet for hours after and there was no shelter for hundreds Acton has contributed in cash clothing and comforts The 2000 lb was shipped to Cobalt Thanks are due to the womens organisations of the churches the and the Womens Auxiliary of the Great War Veterans Association In addition the local fanners will collect and forward a car load of feed for the northern farmers whose barns and feed were destroyed by fire The men who went west for the harvest have nearly all returned Taken from the the Free Press of Thursday October JO US Premier Leslie Frost officially opened the public school addition on Tuesday as close to 1000 citizens and visitors filled the auditorium and overflowed into classrooms and halls- program and outlined the planning Mr Frost presented a silver key to Dr Mayor Rachlin spoke and Rev Price dedicated the new addition Principal McKenzie in his remarks explained the value of the multipurpose auditorium sod introduced the members of the staff the largest Gamble Kay Alger Helen Little McKay Shirley Braid Jean Klrby Daisy Anderson Annie Wilkinson Ralph McKeown Elmer Smith and Prank Elliott Enrolment is Joe Hurst reported on the activities of the special gifts committee Among the gifts are reproductions of famous from CAG Matthews flags from the chapters portrait of Miss Bennett and Bible from the Friendly Circle portraits of the for the classrooms from the Legion world books from the association trophy cabinet dictionary Rotary Club kindergarten pictures from the Brownies equipment from he Home and School records projector and sports equipment from toe students trophies from Mayor Gordon and son and Ted Tyler ferneries from the Auxiliary stove from the Home and School port equipment from the Mens Association