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The Acton Free Press Wednesday We won we lost The Canadian Community News papers Association challenged the post office last week and we won But we re all losers Here s what happened The weekly newspapers people plan rung last weeks convention in Winnipeg arranged a challenge delivery of newspapers They organized a pony express which would relay newspapers along a mile route from Mehta to Morns Manitoba They started out right after publishing times and headed for a gathering of newspaper people at the Morris rodeo last Thursday The post office it was assumed would simply follow its usual procedure of delivering the papers to post offices by truck However the post office brass decided to enter a team of bicyc lists delivering papers along the same route as the pony express Why Dont ask us To throw us off the scent A red herring maybe The bicyclists won the race The ponies came second Four hours later the post office delivered its papers the regular way The post office officials said they won We said we won And the people who subscribe to weeklies all over the country lose again While in Winnipeg we talked to Oral and Stan Norton who were visiting her sister Peg and her husband John Valby They had just received the July 6 and 13 issues on thesameday weekafterthe mailing of the second On the same subject Winnipeg is a beautiful city and over 350 people from the weekly paper business enjoyed being to gether There were business meeting seminars on special aspects and speakers Special events included a cruise with dinner and dancing along the Red River and attending a re hearsal of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Our sister papers received awards the Georgetown In dependent firsts and seconds and the Canadian Champion of Milton seconds The Free Press was en tered in a huge class with 36 other weeklies in this circulation category and we placed seventh so there are no certificates to put up on the wall this year Its not the real us Elected president of the news papers association is Lynn Lash brook publisher of the Rodney Ontario Mercury and West Lome Sun There are 550 members in the association all across Canada Although Lynn Lashbrook has the ageold oneman type of oper in his town he has the most uptodate offset equipment in his plant And his papers have won over 35 awards The weeklies are all striving for a good product Doing a job for the area is important to them If it weren t we would all just put out free distribution advertising sheets and quit work every weekday at 6 m and take week ends off It would sure be a lot easier why everyone was less than impressed when they saw an episode from a new television show about a weekly newspaperman set in the The codger played by Henry Beckman who was in Winnipeg to meet us has antiquated equipment and does a bumbling job that was downright embarrassing It s supposed to be funny Newspaper people couldn t help but think it could be funny without putting such a bad face on the in dustry Weeklies are in the forefront with modern equipment centralized printing plants good picture repro duction imaginative ads and papers filled up with strictly local news not easy tocome by columns and genera features Studies have shown us weeklies are better read than dailies People who watch a lot of tele vision get a distorted view of police doctors and housewives We hate to see newspaper people added to the list One blessing the show is to be on television on Tuesday nights The lights here burn late Mondays and Tuesdays in the newsroom make up department and press room So none of us will ever see it anyway Honor for a friend A good friend Gerry Craven of was named an honorary life member of the Canadian Com Newspaper Association We were very happy for him His wife Edna Howard lived here many years back when her father was the minister of the Bap tist church Their son is named Howard Their newspaper the Ridgetown Dominion is now owned and operated by Murray and Doris THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Com and tm pood owe Sugar and spice Scoyne formerly of Acton Their lively son Gary was in Winnipeg with them Bill Adsett publisher of the Drayton Advance and the reeve of Eramosa township was at the convention to accept his second place award for best all round in his circulation category Court news Something that s always talked about when weekly people get together is whether or not to cover court news Some papers carry lists every week of every single charge parking speeding liquor offenses the works Everybody agrees people adore reading it But should we print it In our case we have never covered court for routine cases just special ones We think that kind of reporting verges on gossip and makes many people unhappy Others say printing the lists is a deterrent People would hate seeing their name in the paper for being stopped for a breathalyzer more than theyd hate the resulting fine Peoples own common sense will have to act as a deterrent around Acton for a while yet We arent going to take on Then is one type among the species Man that puzzles and saddens me In an thai congratulates Itself on its openness Its honest its Let it all hang out attitude Hit hypocrite is still very much with us Some people might think the was the golden age of hypocrisy Certainly it set some high standards in this line There were the manufacturers who preached enlightenment and progress on one hand md on the other worked hours a week in Iheir factories There were the men who brayed of chastity as one of Ihe prime virtues and with prostitutes There were the men who spoke glowingly of a gentler of lift and set savage fighting dogs on one another The list is endless And Ihe women Oh but wtren they the too Just as tough and voroc lousasany woman of today hid these traits behind a facade or gentility humility helplessness fainting fits It was an era in which the public mouth ing of the Christian virtues was only ex by the private materialism corruption and sometimes downright of the middle and upper classes Well then have we got rid of this par licuiariy obnoxious type well into the half of the century Not bloody likely Perhaps we re not as hypocritical as the Victorians I want to bet on it All that s changed is the terms of reference No manufacturer today could get away with hinng children But don think Ihey re any less heartless than their fore bears At least in the century you knew the boss was a bastard Today a company can reorganize and turn half a dozen middle aged men Into Ihe street by an executive decision Many men today s society still practice double standard one for them selves A man who gets drunk has had a few too many A woman who gets drunk is disgusting A man can go to a business convention and little fling with a call girl If his wife kisses a couple of guys at the New Year parly a bit too a sex maniac We have politicians who spout of peace plan for war doctors who preach drugs and tell you cigarettes will kill Ihey butt their coffin nail of the day and pop a couple of bennies lo keep going We hive pillars of the church whom you trust as far as you could bounce a bowling ball in a swamp We have all kinds of characters who will cheat on their income tax berate people on welfare for ripping off the government We have teachers who can t under stand the attitude of young people today completely forgetting that they them selves were Insolent lazy and not even that bright when Ihey were young people We have mothers who got in the family way at and had a shot gun marriage bewailing the sexual licence of their daughters have fathers who deplore at length the of their sons conveniently ignoring hat they had to have a good boot in the tail from Iheir own fathers before ihey d carry out the ashes We have school trustees who will double over in an agony of glee after hearing a filthy joke but in public sternly deplore he pornography children arc being exposed to in their school literature hey are the type who will respond with chuckles and even bctly laughs to the sexual leers of Norman Lear In Maude and All in the tamily but thunder The cure for loneliness Loneliness all men and women those of status and derelicts adolescents and old people the single and the married Ihe learned and the illiterate Is there any remedy Some look for release in work It can fill the lime but not the void Others turn to lei sure It has the same effect since leisure Is merely a substitute for work Why not frequent a bar That is to ex change boredom for oblivion What about sex Nobody can really find his own Identity in another least of all in body of another Sec a psychiatrist Maybe If you search yourself and your biography with a doctor s patience you can find something or some one to blame At least you can explain your anxieties to him To the degree that he helps you will realize with greater clarity lifes loneliness On the face of the Gospel narrative is the lonely Christ In his birth he was sought as an earthly ruler He suffered the rebuke of Mary ana Joseph when as a youth he was found In the temple In discourse with the teachers When he entered his ministry both the sick and the well mistook his power Israel which has boasted about his coming found him subversive when he came Rome was by Bill Smiley ingly against a fine novel like The vincra by They arc the type who don want thing racier than The Twins taught in school bul will shout with ribald laughter at smut on television and take in every restricted movie in town laughing when there is bloodshed on the screen and a couple of naked bodies start squirming on the celluloid strip What about today women Are they less hypocritical than Iheir greatgrand mothers On the whole Id say yes They re just blasted Irritating ever but they re more honest They II cry for no apparent reason but the know there no percentage in pull a hint They d Continued on page My metric clock Grandad isn t here loday To hear his old Tick Tock Although it s sad I kind of glad He can see his favorite clock They have modernized the dial It can I strike twelve In the metric way ten hours a day Its pendulum swings in pain It must hurry on the minutes or now there none to spare In this metric it must not waste Its seconds in despair So the tiny mouse of yesteryear rom the story Dock Must run like hell for a breathing spell laside my grandad clock It measured out my grandad life Sixty seconds to the minule In this age of space it now must race If it wants to stay within it From Fahrenheit to Celsius Now miles to meters past It is no shock that s clock Now runs two hours fast Victor Smith The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Issue of the July 1967 A farewell party of Lake and Park Ave nue neighbors was held for Miss M Z Ben nett at the home of Mrs Clark Armstrong recently with a address and parting gift of a leather writing case Miss Bennett thanked everyone very sincerely Visiting with Mr and Mrs Ron Lewis over the weekend were two Rotations and their wives from England Mr and Mrs Ted Clark and Mr and Mrs Walter are visiting in Canada mainly to see Expo but also intend touring Eastern Canada They also intend to visit with Mr and Mrs Mike of Wein berg When in England earlier this year Mr and Mrs Lewis visited these friends in Mr and Mrs Johnny Krapek Jimmy and Jennifer have been holidaying with Mr and Mrs Trevor Bray and family formerly of St Acton at Pa the past few days Mr and Mrs George Wallace and Mr and Mrs red Anderson attended a family gathering of Williamson clan at the home of Mr and Mrs Bruce Williamson in Stratford on Sunday Other relatives from Burlington were also present 20 years ago Taken from the Ihe free Press of Thursday August 1857 Corporal Ray Mason of the local OPP delachment on Wednesday marked years with the provincial police Before joining the Acton detachment in 1949 the corporal served with the Oakvillc detach ment for five years with the county detachment for five years and with the detachment for some time He moved to in 1W2 while serving on ounty detachment A E Fred Anderson of Hornby one of Ontario largest bee keepers reports this honey crop as fair to good with excellent quality honey scheduled to appear on the store stands sometime this week of Ihe local Scout Hall is now proceeding since the Hon of well points lo drain the area and allow the digging in the sandy soil The hall is rest ng on steel beams supported by posts in centre he outside banks of the full depth basement is nee allow meeting areas to iccommodatc the growing Scout Cub Guide Brownie groups A call to extinguish a burning motorcycle near s Corners was not answered by the local firefighters on Sunday Chief J Newton pointed out there was no agreement with the rural area to cover fires in any of Ihe and the brigade was unable to attend years ago Taken from the Issue of tree Press of Thursday July 1877 Congregational church is completed with entire cost provided for following fivehour meeting Services commenced at 10 andDr Ives made an earnest appeal for subscriptions to cover the bal of the debt The entire cost of the edifice was He suggested that ten persons subscribe each The task was a hard one but it was fully accomplished The church was then formally dedicated On Sunday afternoon a terrible accident happened to a noted female in Guelph She was riding in a phaeton with a young man when they commenced to smoke cigars Shortly afterwards flames broke out from the back of her dress The flames burned off her clothing leaving only her corsets and boots A bed was placed on a wagon and she was conveyed from Lehman s Hotel to General Hospital At Caledonia an infant was left on the church steps during a service It was taken in charge by one of the citizens of the vdl age Acton Division Sons of Tempennce are arranging a picnic for Civic Holiday to Bur lington Beach Round trip fare cents Coal oil applied with a cloth to stoves will keep them from rusting during the sum an accomplice in his condemnation Judas betrayed him Peter denied him Ihe others fled Unwelcome misunder stood rejected unloved and misloved he was delivered to death as if he were alone However anyone who looks beneath the surface of the Gospel must be impressed by Ihe fact that Christ went about unaware of loneliness Indeed on the Calvary he asserted I am not alone for the Father is wilh me John 16 Communion with God was his constant resort Then why do most of us tend to regard prayer as a last resort Nothing else dispels loneliness But how does one do It That is just the trouble Prayer Is nothing you do Prayer Is about being Prayer is being so consciously alone In Gods presence that loneliness is incom patible with thl3 experience Thus you learn the secret of Christ very next words I hove sold this to you that In me you may have peace In the world you have trlbu lotion but be of good cheer I have over come the world John 16 33 Written or this newspaper by the Reverend Gordon Smyth minister of Central Lanark United Parish His address Is Stonecrcst Form 3 Lanark Ontario K0G ERNIE BROUGHTON made a special trip from Bracebridge to bring this and other pictures to the Free Press office for our readers to peruse This photo was taken in 1923 and shows a kindergarten class in the Old Town Hall The teacher is Miss Gardener The picture belongs to his wife who only knew a few names Perhaps this papers readers can help In identifying more names In the front row Frank Jones is fourth from left and Cecil Gibbons is eighth from left In the third row Gwen Marsh in white is fifth from left and wife of Ernie In the top row fifth from the left Is Olive Rookes Second from the right Is and right is Annie Holmes The rest of the people are unknown