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0 %q. 0& Also lncorporating The Bowmanvulle News The Newcastle Independent * The Orono News Authcnized u ;ecd Cleiss Mail bY the Pont Oftice Dept., Otawe, ind for pryment c1 postage In cash Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED P.O. Box 190 62 -66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario JOHN M. JAME~S GEO. W. GRAHAM GEO. P. MORRIS EDIOPUBLISNS»ADnTG. MANAGERt BUsiNFs MGR. "Copyright acdci property rghts subsist in the imrqe arpearncg on this procit. Permishion Io reproduce, i wb>îl <of in part and in ony form whtaever, partic u lrly by phote7raphie or allant ptocmc in a puil.caton, muet b.e btained tram. lb publisher and the printer. An y uuthornzed reproduction w<iibà eubJect te recourse. in law.' $5.00 a~ Yeai - 6 monthe S2.75 $7.0 c Year in the Uràtsd States etz:ty in advance Al eveb ",?Precaution wil! b. toaisn ta avoid errer lThe Canadicin Staeseman accepta advertis. : n a ifs -olumn, on the understandinq that il wdj cet b. fiable fer crny errer ie eny edévertie.iment n =bhhd .îe.unnfu unions a preai ai sucli advertiserment in requested in wnitinqby the advertîser «nd r.turned ta The. Canadian Siateeainrbatins& office duly signer! by the. adverfftlead witb euch errer or Cx=lnnà uin ily nated in winq therecs, and ini that case il iy errer se soted je net j'rrected by' rbe Canadien Statesmein de lhability abali Bet e,'eeed such a portioc et the. satire criet el sucb advurtia.ment cm the Ipace occupied by the noted errer battre te the wtt,,!. pace occupied bv aciidwert4e.nnt. ~" 'Vr'-,- 4The Canadian Statftman, 'BowmanvM@l, Sept, il, 1068 EDITORIAL COMMENT Reader Solves Postal Raise Problem Bowmanville, Ont. Sept. 6, 1968. Dear Editor and Readers, Ouch ! 5 cents for Christrnas cards this year. Weil, don't despair ail ye men and women of good will - here's '1"omne chéery advice for you. ndFirst of ail get out that long list adstart scratching names off - and do it NOW, because corne December and you'I get wishy washy and senti- mrental and by that time you'l1 have forgotten most of those addresses any- wVay. First start with your next door ?leighbor and everyone else on the street. 1 could neyer understand why rny neighbors insist on sending me ýChristmas cards every year when the neighborly thing to do is walk right over to your neighbor and shake their 11hands and wish theni a warrn Merrv Christmas IN PERSON - it'S rnuc ~,oeeffective than an impersonal card wiha verse made up by someone in --a card factory somewhere. And it's ,'ýcheaper too. Next if you have roorners or rela- ~tives living in the same house, scratch thern off too. What's the' sense of mail- ing a card to your own bouse when the saine thing can be done in person. If you feel you must give a card, slip it under their door. Next the "old friends" right in the sanie town that you may see once or twice a year and wave at each other when you happen to meet. If you feel guilty about not sending ti-eni cards -- phone them ! and wish them a Merry Christmas. Weil that gets rid of ever 'yhody in ,town. You may want Io make an excep- tion for a rich old uncle or a mother- in-law. Next, the out of bown cards - for those miles away well that's different. 1 think Christmnas cards were originally sent out for those you hardly ever see -but the sanie thing applies if you correspond fairly regularly then by ail ineans, but for those you neyer hear from, from year to year and onl *v get a card at Christmnas, eut theni off'- it mnay encourage theni to write. But don't leave out the overseas cards, the shut-ins, those in nursing or nid age homes or in the hospital or old folks who lîve ail alone. A card really means something to theni. I know some people who even send cards to their doctors, dentists, the mnilkman, the garbage man, etc. I know one kook who gives a card to her mail- -'nian ! (bet he won't get one this year) _. and sorne send cards to people they've :',one business withý. Jusi because they -(the businesses) send out cards, you shouldn't feel obligated Io send one in : Teturn - e.g. your insurance mnan, your -real estate broker, vour bank manager :-they probably have someone do up -the lîst for themn anyway, let alone lick Zktamps ! Weill raybe they can afford JIt and they probably think it's "good -for business." Ailrny "business" cards _ia right in the trash can, along with some of the so-called popular Christ- mas cards sold nowadays - I rnean the "sick" cards, with jolly old Sant.a on it and the joke cards getting more popu- lar every year. The only Christmas cards 1 like sending are the ones with Nativity scenes - that is the only real kind to send. After ail - we are cele- brating the Birth of nur Saviour. And there's one more I'd cut off -- that's the persan you meet on the street an "old friend", just a few weeks before Christmas he'ii ask you in a round about way "Oh, by the way, whats the nuni- ber on your house. I'm making up my card list" - this bird is TELLING yau in his own way that YOU are gaing to get a card froni HIM - big deal - if a person has to ask you your house no. or P.O. Box No., or your initial! - DOUBLE scratch theni off ! Also baby announcement cards are considered f irst class mail as they con- tain a "message" -- 1 know one proud father who got around this when baby arrived. He got some change of address cards FREE froni the Post Office, ad- dressed them ta his many friends and relatives, put the babv's narne on themn and sent them out- announcing the baby was "moving" f rom the hospital to his home. I think this is legal but you better check with the P.O. on this one. As for Christmas cards, think how happy it will make the P.O. staff this year if everyone did this, and they wouldn't be losing rnoney either be- cause they would save money by not having tb hire extra help for the big annual rush, and of course vou wili be saving too, so go ahead. Try it this year. Sorne of the people you've been sending to might even be glad. THEY won 't feel obligated anymore. It works. 've been doing it for years now. And for the pessimists, sentimentalists and die-hards, M'I say right now I amn. No Scrooge. Editor's note: "No Scrooge" has cer- tainlY worked bard on the above solu- tion, but you just can't beat the odds. If everyone followed this advicé we'd really be in bigger trouble. Coutts, Hallmark and the other card makers would be out of business, paper com- panies wouid go broke, retailers and a great many worthwhile local organiza- tions and individuais wouldn't be able to raise funds by selling cards and sa on. Result would be disaster, higher taxes tocover unernployrnent insurance payrnents and lower incarne tax rec- eipts, loss of taxes to thousands of coni- munities when businesses went broke with the other taxpayers having to make up the difference. Worthwhile club projects would be abandoned and friends wouid wonder if you were rnad at them. Oh, things would be dx'eadful, just because you cut your lisi. Don't upset the economy of the country, please. Pay that extra 2c and maybe Mr. Trudeau will corne bv here some day in bis new otter coat, to make up for everything you've lost. Arresting Drunks Following the Iead of British Col- 7-mbia the province of Saskatchewan jihas wisely chosen ta stop the practice --of laying charges againsi common ,drunks. The province's atborney-gen- ,,..eral, recognizing that inebriates are not criminals but victims of their own excesses, has ordered a three-month moratorium on the custom of pîtnish- ing drunks wibh a fine or jail. Instead they will be detained until sober, then released without charge. The decision was miade at leasi partly on humanibarian grounds, coni- '"ments The Peterborough Examiner. It was feit that no purpose wvas served in incarcerating or fining liquor offenders after they had sobered up. It was right- ly decided, however, that police should continue the practice of detaining pub- lic drunks bath as a protection for soc- iety and ta proteci the drur.k froni ac- cident. By eliminating the business of having the tippler appear in magis- brate's court for senlencing, the Sas- katchewan experiment will sax'e a good deal of clerical work and legal expense. This new method of handling drunks bas muich to commend ib par- icularfv if chronic cases are given medical supervision andi sent ta detoxi- fication centres for treaiment whert des- ired. The present Ontario pract.ice of fining or jailing du'unks -- $10 or fix'e days for a first offense - bas no de- terrent value and clogs aur alreâdy over-crowded jails wîth persans who wouid be better off at their jobs. Wbile Ontario would be wise ta watch the Saskatchewan test carefully, any change in the present procedure should recognize the distinction be- bween those picked up for being drunk and those whose behavior while under the influence canstitutes a public nuis- ance. Drunkenness cannot be allowed bo serv'e as an excuse for those wha show disrespect for the rights of others, and those wha cannot drink without going mildly beserk should pay the penalty for their actions. THE RIGHT 0F WAY HERE'S a little ditby for those who argue "I have the right of way" - Two fools had cars they tbought perfection; They met one day ai an inter- section, Toobed their horns and made a conneciion. A police car carne and made an inspection, An ambulance came and made a collecuion: Ail that xvas lefi is a recollection, And lwo less votes in the next election. Sugar4 and Spice CZECHS ARE TOUGH Even a banker couldn't find a bad Czech these days, as those brave and sturdy people, international underdogs, are the cynosure of the world's admira- tion. It takes guts to shout insults at a man holding a gun on you. As in any other country, of course, there are bad Czechs as welI as good ones. But good and bad, they have been giving Big Brother a hard tirne of it. Remembering Hungary, the Czechs hand enough sense flot to tackle the wolf with bare bands. For the same reason, they knew there would be no help from elsewhere, if they did. But they man- aged to imake themnselveg as indigestible as poNsible for that same wolf. It's flot the first time the country has been thrown ta the wolf. In the late thirties, the British and French threw them. to a German walf, while the big Slavic brother ta the east turn- ed a blind eye. lb must be a bitter thing to be a Czech. Here you are, a good, honest Bohemian. After WorId War 1, you ar'e thrown in with those lousv Slovaks and told you are now a citizen of a brand new country. So you work like a dog for fifteen years and turn your country into one of the finest examples of democracy in the world. Then you are betrayed. By whom? By the great demnocracies. Then you are bullied and tortured and starved for seven or eight years by the German invaders. The war ends and the Germans leave. The Bussians don't. When they finally get oui, you try to put the pieces back together. It looks as though it might be possible. But you are on the wrong side of a certain curtain. So the Communists stage a coup and for the next decade or so you are a comrnunist. But you have a love of freedomn and independence and you chip away ai the iron blanket until a crack of daylight appears. And you are betrayed again. By whom? By the great commun isi powers. It's enough ta make a saint cynical. CANCELLED MacDuff Ottawa Report Greates! Possible Restraint Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau dropped some en- couraging words for taxpay- ers aI a press conference over the long Labor Day weekend that rang alarm belis ln federal government offices. H1e said bis Cabinet was engaged iIn a continuing re- viewv and re-examination of ils expenditure program. "The financial and budge. ta ry circurnstances w i t h which we are confronted are such that it is essential to maintain the gî'eatest pos- sible restraint with respect to expenditures by ail levels of government." he added. Top level civil servants began ta wonder what gov- ernment programs were go- Ing ta get the axe. Thev had reason to wonder and worry because at that con- ference Mr. Trudeau had disclosed that the $25.000.- 000 Winter Works program liad been cancelled for the winier of 1968-69. This will stir up a political starm. Last year the federal gov- ernmenl paid out that amaunt ln grants ta 1,727 Tnunicipalities for prajects Involving 86,841 men. The works programn provided about three million man days of work. It had been ln operalian for 10 years- Introduced first by John Diefenbaker when he was Prime Minister. During that decade same $300,000,0 ln grants were pumped into thousands of community prajeets. Taxpayers could cheer the Prime Minister's declaration that his government was out ta cut down such ex- 49 YEARS AGO <Sept. 18, 1919) Mr. Samuel Snawden, Maple Grave, bas returned from a tour ln Glengarry and Dundas Counties wbere be acled as Government Livestock Judge et the Fal Fairs. Mr. W. Adams bas pur- chased the brick residence and garden, Westmount, awned and occupied many years by Mr. Thos. Legge. Dr. J1. W. Brimacombe. Marion. mnd.. bas been visit- ing bis mather, Mrs. E. Brimacombe, and friends in Hamilton. Mr'. and Mrs. A. H. Cass, son Arthur and daughters Eva, May and Per] of Min- neapolis, Minn., and Mr., W. Dickey, Toronto, wba bas just returned from tbree years' service averseas, bave been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cale. S. S. Staples, son of J. L. Staples, a prominent live- stock breeder near Mill- brook. was nominated at U.FO. Provincial Conven- tion for Durham. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Tamb- lyn, Orono, and Mr. and Mis. John Elliat. Bowman- ville, atiloed ta, Kingston last week. Miss Olive Fowler, Moore- fieid, ls visit.ing ber Aunt. Mrs .Jas. Courtice and ather relatives ln ibis vicinItv. Mr. Thos. Stacey, àlue- vale,.qpent the weekend with bis brother. Mr. John Stacey, Liberty Street. Miss Diana Fowler and Miss Mary Galbraith, New York, are holidaying with relatives het'e. Mr. Hector Sborbridge, Blackstock, is visiting bis father, Mr. Fred Shortridge. Mr. Leland Edger, Lind- say, spent tbe weekend at home. Messrs. Wesley Langmaid and Lloyd Rice. Toronto, spent Sunday bere. Mrs. John Reid is visiting ber sister. Mrs. Thos. Bridg- man, Ottawa. Mr. T. H. Spry Is visiting bis son, Mr. W. L. Spry, Kenora. Mr. Roy H. Rickard spent the weekend at home. Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Trebil- cock. Toronto. spent Sunday at Mr. P. C. Trébilrock's. CapI. and Mrs. C. W. E. Mea 1h. Toron to, spent the weekend herm penditures. However, ln the néxt breath Mr. Trudeau suggesbed that much of the money that had gone inta, the winler works pî'ogram might go instead into the rnanpower retraining pro- gra ms. If the monev I, s plowed Int the manpower re-Irain- ing it %vill not mean a sav- ing for the taxpaYer. But Mr. Trudeau makes the point that on a long range basis l lm better to reduce pockets of unemployment and assislt.the growlh of the economy by re-training man- power so that it can do somne other work. rather than pro- vidîng federal grants ta "make-work" activities. Another project that hit the scrap heap îînder the governments economy drive was the $22.000.000 Queen Elizabeth Il Observatory in British Columbia. Il was ta be erected on Mount Kobau ta mark the visit of Her Majesty ta this country ln 1964. The gaverrnment said continuation of the castly project cauld flot be justfled in "this periad ot retrenchment and financial difficulties." Biggest headache for the Cabinet in its determination ta cul costs bas been the Czeohoslovakian invasion by the Soviet forces and the repercussions t h a t have occurred. During the gen- eral election campaign this spring there were strang hlnts, dropped by the Lib- erals that they would cut back on the Canadian Arm- ed Forces after a review of foreign palicy. d and i .'ý'Distant Past From the Statesman Files 25 YEARS AGO (Sept. 16, 1943) Russell Short, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blake Short. sup- plied at Jury & Lovell's Drug Store ln the absence of Mr. Ross Stuil. Russell has been altending College of Pbarmacy, Toronto, and during the summer assisbed iln Jury & Peacack Drug Store, Kingston. He bas now resumed bis studies at University. Misses Doris Dudley and Helen Pritchard ablended Oshawa Presbytery Young People's Execubive meeting aI Maple Grave. Tbursdav. The meeting was ln the form of a corn roast at the home of Miss Mildred Snowden. Miss Jean Pattinson. nu rse- n -training, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, is spending ber vacation w'ibh ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pattinson. M\1r. Wallon Pascoe Is ln Akron Ibis week ln the in- leresîs of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Ca. Miss Myrîle Hall, daugb- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Waler Hall, is attending Peter- borough Normal Schooi. Mr. Lamne.J. Brown, Windsor, visited bis moîber, Mrs. Thos. Brown, Centre Street. Mrs. S. Preston, Mr. and Mrq. Eric Colwell, Linda and Bruice visited friends ln Toron ta. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Mc- flveen are enjoying hl- days with relatives at Auburn. Warrant Officer Donald Mason spent the weekend witb bis mother. Mrs. C. H. Mason. Miss Natalie Ward, Osha- wa, was guest of ber cousin, Miss Margaret Rowe. Miss Jeanne Rice. nurse- ln-training, Kingston Hos- pitlI is holidaying with ber mather, Mrs. C. Rice. Pte. Theodore Rosehart, Debert. N.S.. visited bis sister, Mrs. Wray McCready. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Yeo and Alvin spent Sund'ay wilh Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Downey. Base LUne. Miss Laura Beal. Pem- broke, is guest of Miss Laura Beath. 8ob Smith. Oshawa. fis guest of George Cawker. Orono: Robt. Ruck. Jr.. R.C.A F., Belleville. wa s homne, resulted within the Defence Department. Even before the election campaign the Minister of National De- fence, Hon. Leo Cadieux was warning on March 13 this year in a public speech in Oltawý,a Ibat in Ibis period of rising cosîs, inflationarv pressures and r'e s tricted budget.s bis Department xvas bard put to keep Its commit- hents. He cautionied that uniess tbe Department was given "considerable financial relief" Canada's defence commilments in NATO and NORAD w'old(, be soon in .Jeopardy. LasI manth former Con- servative Defence Minister Douglas Harkness declared that the Canadian forces now are unable te, meet Canada's defence commit- menîs. Spokes-man in the national defence deparîrnent disagreed. They said early this month that Canada was slill able la keep ils com- mibîmenîs but admilted that Ib was a taugb struggie and that the defence budget would have ta be stepped up - not cut back. Canada bas a vital raie to play In NATO. Rather than reducing ber raie In that alliance It may become necessary for Canada la ex- pand uts role. Clearly the USSR Is now engaged In a tesbing period In which It Is pushing and prodding along the borders of the European areas wilh- In which ib bas exercised ts influence. If the NATO countries do flot respond quickiy ta these tests of s;trength the Russians could become emboldened ta ex- pand their sphere of Influ- ence In Europe. The review of Canadian f9reign policy which has been underway will now have ta be re-considered In the light of the Czechoslo- vakian developments. There Is fia doubt that Canada along wilb the other NATO cauntries was laken comn- pletely by surprise by' vthe action of the USSR. This country can of course decide that it wants ta con- tinue ta reduce ils commit- ments and pull back frorm NAMrO. The Cabinet if it taok such a decision would be In effect saying that Canada was only a x'ery small middle power wilh fia Influence and no desire ta have Influence an world affairs In the future. Cana- da wauld no longer, have an effebive voice on the Inter- national scene. The Federal Cabinet must inake its critical decision elher ta enlarge the de- fence budget or start ta make major cutbacks in thjs cauntry's commitments. Even if the government decided against enlarging aur armed forces sa that they could more adequately handie the existing comn- mitments, there would be an Increase in the defence budget needed because of another pay Increasei October. If the forces do nal get Ihat pay Increase - at ieast six per cent - in line with what other govern- ment employees are recetv- Ing it xvould lead ta a slump Itn morale and mot-e kecy people leaving the services. Achievement Day Held at Orono Fair The Achievement Day for the 4-H Maintenance Club was beld again tiis year aI Oronao Fair, Sept. 7, 1968, at 10:00 a.m. The members of the club were given a quiz ta answer, also a parts iden- tification test. We were ask- ed Jiow la, prepare a tracbor for a 10 hour day. The re- mainder of the day was then spent in leisure aIt the fair. Memorial Hospital Weekly Report For the week of Septemnber 2-8 inclusive: Admissions 72 Birtbs. 2 maie. 4 femaie 6 Diseharges - .-- . " 62 Major opèratmons ------ 6f Mtnor aperations 21 Emnergpncy trealmenîs . 11 Vîsiting houri 3-8 p-rn. daily. And don't thînk the Czechs aren't. ft don't give up oni them. They are touti, passionate and practical and some day they're going ta came up smelling oi roses. Tough? There's a Czech dentist in Toronto who was tortured by the Ges- tapo, hung up on rneathooks and has the scars ta show it. He was going home for a visit this summer. I hope he didn't. Passionate? Put four Czechs to- gether, start a political discussion, and in five minutes you'd swear they wére going ta kili each ather. I had somne Czech friends in prison camp and they faught furiously, Czech against Slovak, carnrunist against republican. But they turned a solid front ta the rest nf us, and ta the Germans. Practical? One of these friends was Andros. His second name had na vow- els. Sornething like Mrckzy. When the Germans marched into Czechoslovakia, he stole a plane and escaped. lie fought with the R.A.F., was shot down and captured. He expected to be shot any day. Did he sit around and brood? Not he. From ernpty powdered-rnulk cans, he manufactured a magnîficent stil]. And when the rest of the camp sat arouind on New Year's eve drinking their stinking prune wine, he and bis friends sipped pitre potato whiskey. l've always been glad 1 was one of bis friends. It was like vodka. He was an avowed communist then, but a good chap. He wasn't shot. Not then. Not by the Germans. They didn't get around to il. I wonder what he's doing these days? And I wonder about two other friends of those days, Rostislav Kanov- sky of Bucklovice 74, Morava, and Joa Zzolensky of Galanta. I just looked up their names in rny tabtered aId P.O.W. diary, and said a little prayer for them. Freedoni fighters of a generation aga. Perhaps their sons are shaking their fists at Russian tanks, or running an underground radio. Let's say a littie Out of the Depths The Czechoslovak drama is far froni being played out. The Czechos- ]ovak leaders and their people may be battered and bruised. Their hearts may be heavy. They may have been forced at gunpoint ta, take sanie steps back- ward. But they are not broken. The keynote for the next act in the drama was given in a speech of re- markable candor aver Prague radia last Thursday by Josef Smrkovsky, Presi- dent of the Czechoslovak National As- sernbly. Reporting on the terrible days that he had spent in Moscow - with Alexander Dubcek, Ludvik Svoboda and the others - being bullied by the Soviet leaders, he said : "The decîsive consideration was the question of whether it was still passible ta try ta get the Czechoslovak state and people out of the crisis into which they had been plunged through fia fault of their own. "Sucb a possibiliby becamne appar- ent when the clear and unanimaus posi- tion of the Czech and Slavak peaples was demonstrated, and this influenced the attitude of our interlocuiors (i.e., the men in the Krernlin) and aur- selves." In other words, whab raised the hope af Messrs, Srnrkovsky and Dubcek (and their colleagues) that a tolerable, if still painful, way out of the Soviet occupation rnight be found was the proven uniby behind themn of the Czech and Slovak peoples. Not only had the Russians by their heavyhanded yet panicky blunder united Czechs and Slovaks as neyer before, but no Czech nor Slovak of consequence was pre- WARD NUMBER EIGHT She lay awake in numnber eight The pill for sieep no slumber brought Sa faced another painful night With naughîtat cheer or smiîe about, AIl other patients sleeping there Like shrouded statues seemed ta lie, She feit an impulse - partly fear - To Rive a shriek or loudly cry ' Then came a thoughl -- "Oh, foolish me "'The Lord is nigh, ta I-im 111 pray7!" And in an instant feels Hirn near. As underneath the coarse white sheet She foîds ber hands as though to sleep, The ward becomes a chancel dimn She hears the sweet refrain of hymns. Then like a little child again Repeats a long forgotten prayer Those sumple words she seeks to find Bring carnfort ta ber troubled mind. Her faith required by God was blest And pain replaced by weîcomne rest. Tao soon the day nurse rusties in Her morning duties ta, begin, She pauses by the bumbled bed And ta, herself she quiet said - "Poor Dear! She's in a happy dreamn She looks s0 peaceful and serene l'Il wash the ather patients first She needs this litIle extra rest." Then gentîy draws the scrpen around To lessen any waking sound. Nor dreamed that extra bit of love Should be recorded up Abave. -M±nnii E. MdHolmn pared ta play quisling for the Soviet invaders. Clearly it was when aIl this was brought home ta the Soviet leader- ship that they began ta back doWn- at leasi enough ta acquiesce in the r-ef, turn ta Prague of the Czechosloaa heroes whom they had sought ta oustý' Now the game played sa skillfully in the Kremlin by these same heroes bas ta be cantinued at home. Messrs. Duhcek and the rest will continue In maintain as much pressure as they can an the Russians, but short of action which might provoke a coniplete Sovietý takeover. (There is good reason taý believe that the Russians theniselves dread being forced into this extrerni step, and this gives the Czechoslavaki some leverage.) But for bhis pressure ta be persuasive and effective, it 1is es- sential that -national unity be preserved behînd them. Withjn this framework fit Mr. Smrkovsky's appeals : "I beg you to believe we were nat silent .- "and "We are sure that you wili understand why this must be so and that you will flot impute wrong intentions ta the, party and stabe leadership." And with- in it, boa, fit Sunday's election of a new Presidiumn of the party still heavily weighted with liberals and the renew- ed cal] froni the central cormîittee for an ear]y wibhdrawal of Soviet troops. Whab is needed ta make this high-ievel pressure effective is the conbinued proven yet disciplined pressure froni below of a unibed Czechoslovak peoIple stili trusting in Mr. Dubcek as their leader up and out froni the bragedy in which bhey a]] were caught. -Christian Science Monitor THE MOUSE TRAP I often wish I could invent The hesi effective mousetrap yet Equipped with such attractive scent That mice from al] the faims around Regardless of their fate would came To taste this nice allurîng bait. I'd make a qîile distinguished one With patent hait for mouse ta take A lifetime guaranteed one - A neyer pinching finger one - And quite an inexpensive one - Then young and aId and rich and pont Wou]d make a bee line ta my door A life of ease would then be mine If I could such a trap design. But then upon the other hand - I don't tbink that would be quite fair For what would cats and kittens do Without their daily rnausy fare ? No house or barn is quite complete With not a mouse for cals ta cat. So' This is where rny mousetrap dreat» Has definitely gaI me beat! 1'd best forget about rny trap And leave it ta some other chap To think this ald lime problem out And sornetime in the future make- With odds and ends of thas and that Concaci frani this that perfect trar We foolish people dream about. M.E. MCHI-oM v-ý Corner for £Poets Z)bea~nabian te#mu Durham Countys Great Farnily journal Estabhished 114 yecirs ago in 1854