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The Acton Free Press Wednesday December THE SCOTCH BLOCK DAM in Ejquesing Township just east middle of the mile and a halt long made lake The Highway north of 10 Sideroad presents a scenic view l and concrete spillway are shown to good advantage from the ground but the view is much better from a plane at J the photo and apple orchards surround the lake Photo by feet This photo looks west toward Highway from over Carpenter Bill Smiley Do you have difficulty In communicating with young people Don t worry We oil do have two of my own and I teach the critters every day in droves I have trouble I ve come to the conclusion that it not our fault it theirs We just can t keep up with their overcharging slang For years I thought a hangup was something I had during the war It was what we called the rather delicate situation created when one of your bombs was caught by the tall and hanging nosedown fused refused to drop I had to land with one of these babies dangling there one day One bounce on landing and the aircraft and yours truly went to glory As you can see I landed like a feather on a snowbank but it was a little disconcerting to see everyone on the air strip flat on his face as I was coming in Now I realize that I had two that da There was the physical one of the bomb And there wis the mental one I had sort of a nan up about being blown up Now of course Hani up is almost old hat in younger circles It means anything from an obsession to a minor worry You on school work Another term that is enjoying quite a vogue these days is ripoff Basically It means stealing but there are milder forms It can also mean talking somebody out of something you want conning somebody into taking something he t want not providing something you ve promised and My daughter Kim was home from college last week She was supposed to come home tor the weekend but it was so pleasant at home and the food was so good and she enjoyed being spoiled so much that she stayed the whole week I observed her manoeuvres as she prepared to return and thought I was seeing a real ripoff artist at worn I I went something like this Oh Mom is that ever a smart blouse Could I try it on Momma with resignation OK but you re not getting it That the only decent thing I have to weir Kim brightly Oh I don t need it I have those crumby old shirts that you hate so much But it really fits me doesn t it And so on I don t think I need to elaborate She got the blouse our teapot my typewriter various pots and pans the only in the house and other items too miscellaneous to list rhc Old lad finally balked when Kim on fur jacket and started swanking around in front of the mirror cooing This really does something for me doesn t it Mom Her mother stood her ground and said in effect you get your rotten hands off that jacket Well as I said I thought Kim was an artist at ripping off I changed my mind when wc took her to the city and saw the apartment she and another girl hid rented in the foil Kim is a rank amateur a the woods compared to city landlords The apartment is on the fringe of a slum area In September she told us glowingly that the apartment was really neat It had a new stove and fridge There were three bedrooms kitchen dining room and living room and bathroom nil for a month It was unfurnished of course Soun led pretty good Hie new stove has an oven that does not work The new fridge might fetch twclie dollars at a rummage sole and the handle is falling off kitchen is like something out of Dickens The bedrooms are boxes only one with window There are no locks on the doors Die toilet t work except when it like it rtc Hipoff I llneverbeawealthy old school tedcher But I m cert going to look into the prospects of becoming a wealthy old slum landlord The seasons here It s to look a lot like Christ mis everywhere you go the stores ire decorated festive lights are festooning houses ind one can detect the sudden surge of feeling which the in Canada And despite the nxieties fighting troubles the world over people ire looking for something some it is eoing to turn out for good In this country Chnstrms comes at the sime time is the shivery blists of the winter star t to blow down from the north But instead of the weather we are witching for Santa laus to emerge from the icy iretit tundra It is ill put of Yulelidc feeling ire others however who think the season whit it used to be I hey I is the to be wary not merry the gloom merchants wc surprised to see one from a church publication whuh takes poke it our present celebrations with delight ind sevenl helpings of truth wi ippent in hyperbole It says jusl isn whit it used to be yuleloes electric lightson the tree holly mistletoe ind ill tint t of seasonal stuff Joy innocence i comfortable like tree lights for instince re a NoNo on ill iilificnl liets The fire would rither you didn t use them it ill As for the keep them out of the house if possible they re big en hiirtt out there in the woods Hie yule lot used to be so comfy but it only idds to the pollution problem As for the lletM it could have serious implications for the population explosion The flowing bowl Is definitely out If you drink don I drive Belter still if you drive don t drive 111 it le iv us with the dinner Win Drop it fork Don Like With all those additives calories and mercury the g old dinner becomes me 1 of Besides somebody somewhere his likely a cranberry boycottonlhcgo Well youwouklnlbc able to wash the dishes because determent is i dirty word course you cm always g to On second thought better check with your psychiatrist See whit le cm do your guilt complex when you know you re not going to lie ir until Support seals breathe easier Humorist Mark Twain once joked chit to protect his he never smoked more thin one cigar a time An Acton resident who prefers to remnn recently suffered sever chest congestion following surgery His New Year s resolution is ilreidy made No Smoking He saw the slitislics Cigirette smokers are rune times more likely to get Of the lung twice as likely to have disease ind the chances of ire increised by 15 times Tram humor to hospital there s a reason sponsored by the County and Assocntion raised through the Chnstmis seals supports research into miny areas of diseises supports research into rmny areas of respiratory ind supports programs to assist smokers quitting the and youngsters not to start We hive i to ibout the effects of smoking but there is no doubt thil smokers ire courting dinger is no known cure for smokers that stretches ind teirs the of the iunLs ind eventually will the is well luringthehsl20yeirs the number of with emphysema has doubled every five years statistics As Alma the Acton representative on the county and soneitly puts it a matter of life and breathe Support the campaign and you I isier A sense of perspective Our environment is too important to be left to the sensationalists They have helped to focus public opinion on pollution all right but now they are tending to overdo it A backlash unfortunately is setting in and unless we are careful the word ecology is to fall into disrepute True some issues which the sensationalists raise are real issues But others are questionable by companson They are second order threats to our environment They attract a lot of attention for i while but iren t reilly serious from i biological point of view Whit is needed more and more is a sense of balance of timing of pnonties Environmentalists worthy of the name take a broad gauge approach to things They are concerned about posterity They don cry wolf day in and day out They choose They try to head off develop ments which can really be harmful to our tender biosphere using arguments which will stand up in the highest court in the land Granted some shouting was necessary It was necessary especially in the GO when we were still thinking in terms of economic growth for growth sike We were mesmerized by one side of nature s balance sheet and one side only We needed a shower of colored paperbacks in order to bring us to our senses We needed few dramatic heidhnes to tell us that the preservation of our living environment was essential to the survival of mankind But the started by the first has attracted i lot of noisy adherents Too many me too irtists ire Stirling too many hares ire predicting catastrophes which fill to m itcmlia They ire shooting from the hip and their credibility is evaporating as one after another of their forecasts to come true This hurts the environmental movement It tends to discredit it Changes in people altitudes take Also they lose their momentum if a few sour notes are struck by those who ire wont to Ieid the charge in a givendirection It follows that we must be sure of our ground if we are to protect our natural environment in the 1J70 From i speech by the Hon Jack Davis Minister of the Environment 20 years ago 50 years ago years ago Perhaps you have noticed that this particular corner of the Free Press editorial page has been confused in last few weeks We ve been experimenting with columns trying to find the right combination to balance off Smiley serious editorials the columns from the post which make up the page each week You miy remember this space was occupied by the Salt and Pepper Column for almost two years It was discontinued because I it had run its course and the page needed more serious type of approach which could be provided by a column such as From the Desk Apparent I wrong Although there have been sonic kind comments about the more serious columns most people have been critical not of the columns but because they replaced Salt and Pepper Readers of this journal who cured to comment obviously like to peruse matters in a lighter vein rather than the serious side happenings which are in plenty by other media Lost week as I relaxed in front of the magic lantern while Harry crooned an Irish rebel song for a Caribou full of enthusiasts my daughter threw an acid comment about the week paper being full of gloom and doom just like the old man had been lately ve heard and absorbed lots of adverse comments in my day but this one particular dart seemed to bit right on the nose That s why you see a new heading and a different approach in this corner this week The current idea is to combine the best elements of the humorous and the serious approach into one written from a personal viewpoint difficulty in grinding out this kind of nonsense is that it may tickle my funny bone but it that it will strike others that way Some possibly think it is ludicrous but for them I have an outstretched tongue dripping with venom stored up several vcars in an editor chair THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 2010 Bus ness and Editorial Office It started this morning as I went through the mail One item was an account of a motor in England It a preltv blonde Enough of course to mike most gentlemen raise an It seems that motorists driving along a we lot England road in pouring rain early one morning were shaken by the sight of a pretty young blonde standing by the roadside Her clothing a cardboard box which was getting pretty soggy Although she was in some most of the motorists drove on probabh trving to figure out how they would explain to wives the unlikely of how picked up blonde in a cardboard box But it turned out there were some the crowd with more Samaritan than who reported the incident to police The police had no qualms ire expected to deal with unusual incidents Out they drove in their and accosted the young lady what that cardboard box I can hear the Bobbie enquiring It turned out the blonde in the box was a social worker who had spent the night in her car Awakened by an early morning downpour and noting there were few people around she decided to take an openair shower She took her clothes off put them on the seat and stepped out into the refreshing rain with only her skin for covering As she stepped out into the rain she heard the car sell locking doors shut behind her Continued on Taken from the issue of the Free Press Thursday December 13 municipal elections on Monday proved one of the keenest in years Mayor is Salmon who defeated the present incumbent Ted Tyler Miss the first woman elected to Acton he the polls followed by resent councillors Fryer Thompson and rwo newcomers are A Irwin and C Woods a member of the 1J51 council nosed out present commissioner T Ware The vote wa per cent ton council at their regular meeting on night granted the Acton Minor Sports Club the use of the arena ice facilities for two nights a week and arranged a per cent split of am gate receipts A free night was also granted to Booster Night J and Surs pointed out about boy ire involved In honor of Miss Ellen Nellie Anderson who has returned to her home on furlough from British Guiana the Senior Auil W S of Knox Church held a missionary family party with all groups inv banquet of Acton Citizens Band was held in the Legion hall with a dinner served by the Ladies Auxiliary President Kingsmill was in charge Tom Nicol is vicepresident Ted secretary and Tom Ware treasurer Honorary presidents are G A Dills Tyler J Chalmers and Bert Mason Most of the traditional Christmas food items are in the best supply since the war New fire truck had its first run to a chimney fire at the home of Mrs Gowdy Wool Combing Corp will not pay the quarterly dividend due to conditions in the wool combing industry Takca the issue of the Free Press Thursday December A branch of the Catholic Women has been organized in connection with St Josephs church A meeting was held Monday in the parish hall when the following officers were elected Miss Anna president Mrs Jane Sayers vicepresident Miss Marion Mcintosh second icepresident Mrs Wm Arnold third dent Miss Lena Costello recording and corresponding secretary Miss Mary Gibbons treasurer Rev Father chaplain Arrangements were completed for the holding of the Christmas tree Dec 21 Caucuses are being held to bring out new blood for Acton reeve and councillors Two issues arc evidently in the crop of the voters hirst the continued high rate of taxation and second the action of the reeve and councillors of 1921 in voting themselves remuneration for their services in performing the reasonable citizenship duues which folks say every citizen should hold himself ready to perform loyally and economically without fear favor or remuneration A disastrous fire broke out in the barn and storehouse of C A Campbell voile just as the funeral service of the late Murray Crawford at St David s church was completed The funeral had brought the people of the countryside to the village and many willing hands were soon at work to stay the flames The barn was totally destroyed but the flames which ignited three houses were subdued Negotiations are now completed lor Amos Mason of Alton to remove here and establish a woollen null The old Power House building will be provided for with the consideration it is used for a factory Now the Free Press plant Acton is fortunate in securing such a splendid business Taken from the issue the I rec Pre is Thursday December Dandelions in bloom last week zero weather this Some of the roads are execrable Miss has been engaged teacher at Milton at 200 A public of the pupils of school will be held tomorrow The public is welcome The railways holiday rates are very unsatisfactory The rates extend only from to Saturday Messrs Hilts and Graham the popular school masters of Balhnafad arc busy with preparation for their Christmas exercises Mr Hilts purposes attending High School for his fust class certificate All wish him success The supplies of wheat in the world are the lightest in 10 years as all spring crops have been failures Shaw Pure Drugs Correct Stationery Christmas Lines at Very Close Prices Porridge sets individual teas fancy cups and saucers bread and butter plates cake dishes berry sets lamps etc A couple of young men disgraced themselves by indulging in a street fight Saturday night at Arthurs flour and feed store You need not cough all night and disturb your friends Get Bickle a AntiConsumptive Syrup Attractions Greenlandsefllapea14 fur storm collars mink muffs grey lamb muffs 2 long fur coats and Co Guelph There has been considerable talk about a poor house for and Peel counties WLngham is requiring that tie posts on I the streets be 30 inches high with a ring on top covered with aluminum and painted red