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Trailering livestock is job for immature youth When one achieves the wisdom of maturity one tends to shudder at lie follies of youth Sound pom enough Torn dignified column Well don t know how mature and wise I am or how dignified this column but I certainly shudder at the follies of youth and inexperience Horse in aback pack The other day Mack and I were along a windy highway In the pickup reminiscing of the days when we d transport our huge Belgian stud In a similar pickup and his stamping produced the same swaying effect on the truck The things we used to do horses would make your hair curl When I think of the stock trucks and makeshift arrangements that carted our horses around I appalled and very glad the horses survived without damage We didn have our own trailer for years people t consider Ihelrown trailer a necessary part of horse gear in those days There was always some stable owner who would transport your beast for a minimal price When married and moved to the farm Mack had the practical attitude of farmers toward moving animals You got them there as quickly and as cheaply as possible with minimum bruises Of course cattle sheep and pigs are much hardier to truck than horses But the same old stock truck or pickup was for my horses it seemed When we started breeding Belgians Mack mode one concession to this business of he bought half ton pickup with extra heavy springs He then built plywood racks for the sides and bolted ply oak plank ramp to the tailgate so heavy it took four men or me and Macktoliftit The day we bought the yearling Belgian who was destined to become a Canadian champion Mack planned to bring him home in the truck but he completed the ramp The pound colt would have to be persuaded to jump the two feet into the truck He did too Without much trouble the colt was pushed into the truck where he stood in startled surprise wondering how he d got there His surprise last long As the men were lashing his head down the colt decided he wanted out and he up ended himself landing in an upsidedown heap in the truck his legs crocheted together through the tie ropes You think that t fun trying to get him out of there without breaking three of his knees I kept crying about the poor horse as the men yanked and pulled Mack kept moaning about his brand new truck Eventually the colt was upright once more a little chastened but not unduly frightened He travelled in that truck for two years even when his body weight went past the ton We d go merrily bouncing into a show ground swaying precariously as the excited stud swung his bulk from side to side We d have to watch for hydro wires because the horse was IB hands tall and stood above the truck racks But his guardian angel was with him that horse never suffered a scratch It easier to walk His brother was just as lucky when we sported him in the same truck to his new home The tailgate was broken at the time so Mack popped the other big stallion in the truck crammed a light plywood rack on the hack and took off with an 13 inch gap between the back rack and the truck base The horse managed his hind legs out the gap going over a railway track and we had to stop and push in again no damage I certainly don know how he didn t break something We d had fillies stand on their heads in a trailer while their heads were double tied We had them somersaulting in narrow trucks One mare a bad trailer risk reared up and threaded her foreleg over the front trailer bar round the centre post and down behind the front bar of the neighboring stall This was in our own con vcntional trailer and t supposed to happen I don know to this day how we finally got her leg out but she was unhurt The only trailer accident we ever had was on one of the few times we hired a professional horseman with a Rice trailer lo move my excitable Thoroughbred She reared on loading and tore her shoulder to bits on a trailer hinge That certainly made Mack mutter I glad those days are over but they sure provide some funny stories Travel less paradise I been helping a student lively find Julie to prepare her speech far the Lions Club public speak ing contest She wrote It I just listen and make critical comments We had few laughs Her speech is in praise of travel in Canada instead of our lame dollars off and spending them on the often spurious attractions of other countries It a of travelogue of Canada and sounds pretty good But at one point she broke me up We have just crossed from Quebec and are cruising around the capital where dwell according to the speech our Prime Minister ambassadors from all over the world and She slurred the ambassadors a bit and it came out Our Prime Minister bastards from ail over world I agree more Another one that shook me up was when she said that Canada is more than A few acres of snow as the French writer Voltaire dismissed It Voltaire tame out as Volare The powers of television However one point in her speech got me thinking along a different track She pointed out that despite the vast variety of this country offers the loUrisf it is expensive to in this Canada of ours loo true Hotels and molels arc ridiculously costly Many hotels in the cities want an arm and a leg for a place to lay your head for a few hours Molels want from to for a plastic room no room service often not even place to coffee and get out by one p no matter what time you checked Restaurants in his country are equally usurious with a very few I don mind going out and spending a day pay at a good rest with suave service food care fully chosen and cooked with care and nobody hustling you out the minute you vt sipped your Inst crop of fifty cent coffee But it burns my butt to be served a leathery omelet with the inevitable piece of limp the inexorable one slice of green house tomato and the ubiquitous helping of trench fries none of which you and charged enough to feed a fair sized family a good meal at home Then there the mark up on drinks anywhere from one lo two hundred per cent Don t believe me Check It out A bottle of beer at home about cents In a restaurant it II cost you about one dollar A drink at home will cost you approximately cents for an ounce and a half with free tap water thrown in In a bar or restaurant the same drink will you from to depending on the decor for an ounce and a quarter And if you prefer wine they jusl triple the price No wonder so many restaurants and bars go broke The business is so pro fitable too many people want it and the law of supply and demand looks the rest Travel in this country is equally unappealing Internal airfares are Smiley ridiculously high It costs almost as much to fly from Toronto lo Vancouver as from Toronto to London England a thousand miles or more Trains are a dying species They have lost their old grace of service good food and excite ment cut off all their branch lines and become a rather wistful anachronism for people who like rough road beds fr equent breakdowns and abandoned stations Buses are better Some have even crept into the twentieth century with aircondltioning heal in the winter and fairly punctual timetabling But all this is ruined by the bus depots which are pure 1970s Sleaze dirty personal and with the inevitable drunk sounding off Or throwing up Another aspect or travelling in Can puts people off is the service or lack of it There s very little service with a smile Too often it ranges from grudging to surly from indifferent to sullen Waitresses slop coffee into your saucer or wipe off your table with a dirty damp rag Walters stand with their backs to you when you are in a rush lo catch a plane Hotel doormen are all smiles when you are checking in and nonexistent when you are ling out with three heavy bags Hotel clerks are almost invariably insolent exuding the atmosphere that they are doing you a favour by letting you sign in Car jockeys come squealing up lo the front door of the hotel jump out hand you your keys with one hand while holding the out and dis appear to let you with your bad back load Ihe bags into the trunk You can spend ten minutes looking for a clerk In a supermarket You could spend the rest of your life looking for a porter at an airport You can turn pur pie in the face waiting for service in a department store while two clerks chat about their night out at the singles club and a third burbles away on the phone to her boyfriend Occasionally you get a genuine smile or a real thank you but more often they are perfunctory or nonexistent Why Is it Ihat nativeborn feel themselves above the service trades so that they take their resentment on customer Is that why most jobs in these fairly lucrative trades are held by rants Is that why our minority of good restaurants are operated by rants Julie is right The country is magnificent But high prices bod food and bad mariners make it less lhan a paradise for travellers Union spoiling relaxed plant atmosphere Dear Sir For several weeks now the union has been trying to unionize the Superior Glove factory in Acton Why after 18 years would we want one now So far the union has spoiled a friend relaxed atmosphere in our plant threatening employees putting scan dalous letters in employees mailboxes and making silent phone calls If this is what they us to pay union dues for Charity would put the money to better use The propaganda and lies printed in last week Herald are unfounded and ridiculous How can anyone be locked in an office when the lock opens from the inside They ve complained about every thing from boiling glue pots that don exist to washroom facilities What do they wont fur covered seats and The ridiculous allegations go on and on The union wants more money This seems silly only to give il back in union Hurray for Frank Geng and Julian You ve done a great job Now look what the union is doing We arc be hind Frank and Julian per cent The union can go fly a kite This union Is flour cereal soft drink and distillery workers What do they know about leather This seems more like a syndicate than a union We the opposition are for the company An employee The Aran Sweater Catherine Graham of 1 use has been contributing articles each year for SI Patrick s Day and she has followed the tradition again in with information on The Aran Sweater That this universally acclaimed should have from a tiny group of islands and that the stitches used in them should have been inspired by the sea and its surround is in itself remarkable Many of the Aran fishermen hove been lost at sea down through the centuries for this reason few of Ihem learn to swim as they acctpl the Inevitable with little qualm On the other hand not all is left to Some years ago these nimblt fingered fishermen turned Iheir net making skills to knitting weather proof garments The great need was to keep warm in rain and spray The Firestone GENERAL ELECTRIC BUY A BRAND NAME YOUKNOWanqTRUST EXPIRY DATE MARCH 17th REFRIGERATOR limit flraten 30 AUTOMATIC CLEANING Getter Electric RANGE Color CONSOLE 77995 Stores M00RE PARK PLAZA GEORGETOWN 877 5119 PAYMENT PLAN The Acton Free Press Wednesday March 1979 Wagner promoted A former Acton man Warren J Wagner has been promoted vice president of sales for Kingston Mr Wagner son of Gordon and Lillian Wag Willow SI assumes management of marketing division and its complete range of product and services He has developed a complete set of qua I in his years in the printing industry and was previously gen era manager of Maxwell Printers Kingston Mr Warner attended Acton schools wool was taken from the native sheep oiled combed and spun and knitted with goose quills this weather proof garment As a means of identification in case they were lost each family had Iheir own symbols knitted the gar men Ihey made Here are a few names of stitches used The Trinity Blackberry Irish Moss the Coble Honeycomb lo name only few The popularity of the Aran sweater has provided an added income However riches have not changed the character of these islanders These tall and humble people refect in their bearing the grandeur and dignity of their surroundings Garments described as Aran Knit have the advantage of the oil retaining wool making Ihem fully weather proof They are also made in other but not weatherproof yarn The average 60year old needs seven times as much light as the average 20yearold to perform same tasks according In Ihe Assoc The older person needs more light avoid falls burns traffic coll is ions and If youre thinking of buying a pool think fiberglass POOLS AquaKing EXAMPLE Heavy gauge vinyl wlih the durability strength of walls From lad n SHAPED POOL 18x34 KIDNEY I Over years experience lot l personally install every pool my customers sell you a pool myself no subcontractor AquaKing Pools Corp Phone Now 6378903 Mea Back a fighter Help crippled children with Easter Seals The Rotary Club of Acton expresses sincere thanks to all who supported last years Easter Seal program and invites every one to assist in reaching this years objective to help crippled children ACTON EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN MARCH to APRIL The 1979 EASTER SEAL APPEAL for die Ontario Society for Crippled Children in association wrth the Rotary Club of Acton Back a fighter Give to taster Seals Today Donations may left at or to THE BANK Of SCOTIA MILL STREETACTON Campaign Conducted by ROTARY CLUB OF ACTON Rick Devlin Chairman in association with THE ONTARIO SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN