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the acton free pre wednesday november 6 1968 same may h begun his ffcit year of teaching in acton with daitei in geography and lllitory he comet from gkncoe near london and is a graduate of wcttcrn unlveiiity he i bonding in action pedagogues are people fresh tracks by barbara mcintosh natfonal pride ive never considered myself particularly bigoted i mean some of my best friends are american citizens and i rather enjoy aretha franklin paul newman and barbra streisand however i cant help becoming enraged at any hint of american domination in my canadian life and 1 jump at the chance of expounding my convictions my train trip to windsor a few weeks ago provided the perfect opportunity i was deeply involved in the first chapter of keys to correct spelling and punctuation in ten easy steps when an overweight gentleman in a tweed suit plopped down on the seat beside me 1 say a beastly bit of weather were having he chirped in a thick british accent yes it is i replied coldly and sunk deeper into my book mother has warned me about talking to strange men undaunted by my indifference he continued actually fog makes me feel at home this js my first trip to the colony you know i laving a bit of trouble with your money travelling far realizing that i was doomed to conversation i closed my hook and attempted to look interested im visiting a friend in windsor and were hardly a colony anymore i remarked canada has been an independent confederation since 1867 i sec he seemed slightly disappointed well 1 suppose you were influenced to a great extent by the americans not at all i snapped we arc a distinctly different setup we even got our own flag two years ago i suppose the americans have wanted to annex us for years but we have been consistently independent in all areas i see he replied i say thats a monstrous factory over there is it owne3by the government he pointed to a large isupont plant by the tracks no thats owned and operated by american businessmen- but canadians work there we both stared out the window just then lie train passed a drivein movie the names sidney poitier and katlierine hepburn flashed at us through the fog i say arent those american movie stars he remarked with a puzzled frown yes actually we dont make many large scale movies up here several canadians have made it big in hollywood though like lome greene and paul anka they come back occasionally for slums at thccne i see he replied and started leafing through a magazine look at this farm canadians in the west must be very wealthy oh thats president johnsons ranch in texas life is an american magazine but most canadians read it i said well frum what i can gather you canadians seem to be just like americans he questioned not at all 1 snapped it may look that way on the surface but actually we havent a thing in common we are a distinctly different race we get tired of having american propaganda jammed down our throats but we all understand that its in the lume of the national economy besides were too patriotic to ever he absorbed i see he added and i could tell by the tone of ins sigh that he was fully convinced for the rest of the weekend i tried to prove to myself that i was right during our shopping trip to detroit i nude a point ol ordering chips with vinegar because i knew it would contuse the waitress they call them french fries and they only use vinegar on pickles i left a canadian quarter tip because i khew they only give you 23 american cents for it on a crowded bus i casuall mentioned in a loud voice hut canada has a larger land mass than the usa and as a final gesture ol good will i asked j tab driver who hubert humpdey was it didnt prove much but i came back home icclmg a little less guilty about driving my american motors rambler rilltttt4ittttiititt i didnt really know what to expect in teaching admits mt may lye thrownout almost everything i learned at oce i enjoy italthough there arc good day and bad days i didnt realize ticpreparation in school he classes himself u an average student and wliat might hi termed alatodecider when he entered western university he really didnt have any idea what he wanted to do he found he enjoyed history and decided that teaching would be one way of carrying on in that field he concludes people who have their profession picked out early are lucky mr may feels that the ungraded educational system will be an advantage in that students will be able to specialize in areas that interest them however he adds it may be a disadvantage because students will have to narrow their goals and finish with a narrower outlook i like to see students who are willing to think on their own without having to be coaxed mr may claims he wishes every student would make an effort to contribute to class discussions since he was raised on a farm mr may was active in 4h and junior farmer clubs one of his prime ambitions remains to own ins own farm in the future in music he prefers hits from broadway shows to anything else and is a pianist when he can get the rust out of his fingers current fashions are just a fad to mr may it really depends on die individual whether they like them and whether they look good in them he says he prefers the wide ties but he doesnt think he could ever don a doublebreasted mod suit did you hear about the cannibal who was caught buttering up the teacher science teacher wilson what does i1n03 signify student well- er ive got it right on thc end of my tongue sir teacher well spit it out fast- its nitric acid sheridan course in art appreciation plans have been completed for a course in art appreciation at the oakville centennial public library starting nov 25 the course linderstanding modern art will deal with many of the new and often perplexing schools of modern art and how how the styles developed out of beginnings in the l century leading the class will be mr john jalisco of the visual and creative arts division at sheridan college extensive use will be made of slides to illustrate various points and discussion will be encouraged provided that enrolment is sulficient the course will run triiin 2 to 1 pm on mondays november 25 to january 27 for lurther information lonlui the director of extension at sheridan college unfair panic button on x notice to the ratepayers of the township of nassagaweya you are hereby advised the following question will be placed on a ballot to be voted on by the electors of the township of nassagaweya at the same time as the municipal election december 2nd 1968 and at the same polling places as the election for the municipal council polls open 1000 a m to 800 p m ar you in favor of a bylaw balng patted by the mun icipal council of tha corporation of the township of nasaagaweya to parmlt hone racing after 130 oclock in tka afiamoon on sunday in tha towmhlp of nni- gawoyaf yes no certified true copy of the question to bo placed on ballot j c melntyre clark james may oui hiadim whiti it jttcmi to the editor of the free press i did not read mr hursts letter of oct 23 but i did read mr van arragons of oct 30 and i must say that 1 heartily agree with mr van arragon years ago in our time a boy went to school till he was about is years old then he went to work if he wanted to be a teacher a lawyer a doctor or a veterinary surgeon he went on to college but he knew what work was he had to put himself through college he did not get a lot of money from dad he had to walk to public schoolno bus to pick him up at the gate in those days he did not yell about help being sent to the little country of belgium which was being run over by german troops in the first world war some never came back some came shell shocked some put in the rest of their lives in hospitals some had their wounds fixed by doctors some came back with their heads held high with firm step and with no regrets that they had risked their lives to make a better world for those selfsame selfish students to live in all this yelling about bringing home troops from foreign bases shows what they arc doing in college are they learning this stuff in college or is it something that floats across the density of their minds people find such funny things to complain about a favorite topic is why not stop the war in viet nam no one says much about s s of russia in czechoslovakia not so much indignation about some of the fiends who put razor blades pins and needles into the treats for little children on halloween not so much about a little pup submerged in a tub of boiling water in a laundromat wever mind all this just stop the war in vict nam is what they keep saying percy woods municipality of esquesing nomination meeting a meeting of the municipal electors of the township of esquesing will be held in esquesing community hall stewarttown on monday nov 18 1968 st 730 oclock in the evening for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of reeve deputyreeve and councillors for the year 19691970 and one member of the halton county board of education for the year 19691970 in case more than the necessary number of candidates are proposed and seconded and a poll is demanded laid poll will be open from 8 oclock in the forenoon until 8 oclock in the evening on monday december 2 1968 k c undsay returning officer by jenny hishop certainly one of the most misguided aspects of a generally confused public reaction to drug use has been its obsession with marijuana hy coriccn t rating law enforcement on one of the mildest and least dangerous of all commonly used drugs a general mistrust and often hatred has been created by the narcotic squad the designation of marijuana as a narcotic and its description by police as a killer wcod ar groundless no wonder teenagers fail to believe in the- dangers risked hy using such drugs as i si or vspccd thcs drugs have been proven to cause severe deformities in the cluldren uf todays drugtaking parents here i feel hie law should intervene but what do they do they wasie their time and money to rage a full scale war on marijuana when it should he on ls d or speed incidcnlly isd is still legal in canada the effects of marijuana on the mind and body does not support its position in the legal category of narcotics marijuana is instead what is known as a hcllu whose effects long and short term arc different from those of actual narcotics a comparison of the effects of marijuana with those of alcohol and tobacco would suggest that alcohol and tobacco should be either subject to stiffer controls or that marijuana be completely icgalicd marijuana is not physically addictive and talk about phychnlogical addictive should he dismissed anything from coffee to television can become a phsychological dependency it has been proven by well known scientists that tobacco and alcohol are in fact more addictive as for the side effects of marijuana there is considerably less evidence of physical disabilities than there is of discasct caused hy alcoholism and cigar cite smoking id like to prove this by pioliiiga statement from a us study by s allentick and k m boumiin prolonged use of marijuana dtlcs iwit ead to mental physical or normal degenerations nor have we observed any permanent effects from its continuous use i suppose the next question that arises to those reading this columni is isnt marijuana the first step to heroin addiction a statistical correlation between heroin and the use of marijuana is about as meaningful as j correlation between heroin and alcohol in short there is no connection between the two at all in the days of prohibition there was more bootlegging and drinking going on than there probably is today so we have to relive the days of prohibition until society cmnesto its tenses and refains from thinking idealisticilly7 guaranteed products and service from imperial gn oil ltd furnace and stove oil greases gasoline diesel fuel motor oils jerry skirr0w ultimatic furnaces no down payment 10 years to pay power humidifiers 8532340 4 bedrooms 2 full bathrooms only 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