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8 THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday October Editorial Lets clean up the airwaves There are certain times during the day and night when a per son tends to wax philosophical There are other times during the day and night when I wax my moustache but thats a different story Journalists keep odd hours its the nature of the beast Since I consider myself one of the brood of ink stained wretches I confess to similarly keeping odd hours Usually its early to bed and early to rise Sometimes far too early which often translates into two or three oclock in the morn There is little else to do at an ungodly hour but turn on the boob tube and at the same time peruse papers and magazines which have been saved for just such occasions A major concern of en is air pollution Perhaps if these types took the time to check what is being foisted on the Canadian public under the guise of television pro gramming they- would discover the reaj meaning of air pollu tion To digress somewhat from late- night television viewing it should also be pointed out that what is being offered during socalled pnme-tim- lours is equally ludicrous Aside from the Arts and Enter tainment channel and the Public Broadcasting Service channel for the most part what is being of fered television viewers must certainly be regarded as an insult to the intelligence most of it emanating from United of America channels Racial stereotypes abound and even blacks have gone on record as stating the so called black situation comedies including the Cosby Show bear no resemblance to realiH in black communities The Mr Mom syndrome pears to have taken Ihe air waves and when male characters aren t they are being emasculated domineering females What s amazing about these scenarios is that women were raising quite a Colin Gibson stink just a few years back when malefemale roles were in fact just the reverse There are very few decent news programs on television and half the time allotted to news pro grams seems to be taken up with the respective crews chatting amongst themselves about what they did or are planning to do on the weekend The frightening aspect about the garbage polluting the air waves is that youngsters are spending more and more time in front of the television and it can be doing them any good Workplace illiteracy is a major concern for many major com and a report from the Con Board of Canada stated that approximately per cent of companies surveyed say they have a significant problem with functional illiteracy some part of their organization As a sad example Campbell Soup Co sent out an attitude survey to its employees and discovered that per cent of the company s workers couldnt fill out the form because they did not have basic reading and wnting skills Some blame the education system correct to a point But the education system only reflects the values of a society and it is clear that people prefer to be spoon fed via television than make the effort to be proper l educated Since such is the case clean up the airwaves get the garbage off the tube and help people who don t seem to want to help thm selves Poets SCHOOL DAZE Overlooking the Old North Sea I sit in this classroom and real I m sure those crashing big wonder why waves I come here every day feel rolling and snarling trvin Its been thirteen years of blood sweat and pain I love to take long walks on the five days a week could make top of the cliff one insane Those huge pine forests 1 sure I come back for more day after love to sniff day A big pipe I hold tight In my teeth nothing to say The smoke curls oer head like Ill be glad when leave just a mightly wreath happy to say bye Im glad Im a lough Highland But when you give some Man thought know its a He If you look in your future what those Lowland clan ran can you Bee We swooped down our hill A life without school a life ready to Kill without me Our Muskets and sword in our The work world is scare and a suit is where iff at Bui business aint for me its But those murderous days have not the tip of my hat gone by So this poem is over and school I gaze up into the pale blue sky will be too My mind wanders to those men Ya know when its over Its who did die time for a brew I scratch my balding old head Greg Smith Acton WHY A HIGHLAND FLING Poppa I hall from the Land of the Milton Heather My old hides tough as CORNING COOKING leather Come to me I wear an old tartan kilt Cupid of Cougar Me tarns on a tilt Carry the Cat I can stand most any kind of to the carriage weather to be cooked with carrots I live In a Wee Hoose way up and cucumbers In the Highlands Dale Hoy Acton The Harton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario 3Z6 ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 CIRCULATION ACCOUNTING Account SUBSCRIPTION HATES Rag It I ai ad No JcNaSs Tha copyright on all original and malarial by amployaaa and Dili had In Ihli National officii W Toronto Ontario IMS 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spring I gaze out of the window and sigh Oh to be in now that the bulls are trampling people Tragically I m always somewhere else So I have to set tie for reading a book or doing my laundry Until recently this sort of behavior wasnt terribly prevalent in Canada Being less exuberant than the Spaniards weve never had an equivalent festival like say the Running of the Beavers in Medicine Hat And until recently this sort of activity has also been pretty much the exclusive property of young men As we all know young men feel the occasional urge to perform utterly pointless feats of daring Ian Weir Weirs View because they are as a species carefree adventurous vibrant energetic and thick as two planks But things are changing This point was brought home forcibly by a recent news item about a young couple in Nanaimo who capped off their wedding ceremony by off a bridge I was it must be admitted distressed Just for starters this makes a mockery of wedding tradition Two people should not jump off a bridge the moment theyve said I do In healthy mar nages the urge to jump off a bridge does not arise for months or even years The urge to perform utterly pointless feats of daring to go bungeejumping or sky diving or rock climbing is manifesting itself in more and more dians Its manifesting itself in my girlfriend Please turn to the Financial Pages if youre in the mood for something frivolous and silly What follows here will be a saga of heartbreak and betrayal Many a many has had the hideous experience of returning from a brief outoftown trip to discover that the Love of His Life has done something from which the relationship might never recover It happened to me in August She d gone para sailing It took a few moments to assimilate the information that she a woman I had always trusted had actually strapped on a parachute and been towed feet in the behind a speedboat How could you do this to me I asked weakly She protested that it had been terrific fun then conceded that it was sweet of me to be so concern ed about her safety No said quietly No you re missing the point The point is this since youve gone para sailing now Ive got to do it She pretended not to know what I was talking about But as every guy knows its one of those gris ly unwritten Rules of Manhood No man shall ever place himself in the position of having to say Gosh youre so big and brave to his girlfriend This is why its so important to choose wisely before falling in love Happy are those men who do not get involved with women who like para sailing whitewater rafting or biting down hard on detonatorcaps She there it stands I have to go out now I need to find a bull I may not be back for some time