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The Canadian Statesman Bowmanville. Nov. 7.1973 5 Solden Legionnaires Choir tooking for New Members As Busy Season In Prospect The Golden Legionnaires Dec. 11, Senior Citizens of are stil! looking for new Bowmanville; also a spring members to sing in their all concert is planned for next male choir. The choir is under April the direction of Ross Metcalf, The above dates are all free with Doug Dewell as assistant. performances, except for the Practices are now held in the concert. Legion Hall, 84 Queen St. from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. every Sunday. BHS The Golden Legionnaires have a busy fall schedule ahead of them, including HELLO ONCE AGAIN! appearances at St. Joseph's In spite of the difficulties in Church on Nov. 11, an inter- the past few weeks many of view with Uncle Benny on the activities are stil going on Cable T.V., Nov. 13;1 Sunday, at B 11.5. One very enthusias- Cable ., N. 13,; S Unday'tic examDle of this is t e Nov. 18, St. Pauls United 'Music Man'. With rehearsais Church; Tuesday, Nov. 20th, a in full swing; the auditorium is half hour of singing with Uncle constantlybeing invaded by Benny, Cable T.V.; Wed., travelling salesmen and gos- Nov. 21, Senior Citizens of siping women. A small or- Oshawa; Sun. Dec. 16, St. chestra of band members will Paul's United Church; Tues. be contributing to the choral mmm mm aspect or the -play. Don't forget to reserve ec. 6, 7, or BILL MACEY for the production. Manager A coule of weeks ago the NOW INTERVIEWING Girls'Athletic Association FOR sponsored a penny guessing contest. The winner was Shely Leddy with a guess of TALENT 585. hert were 586 in the jar. And the parking meters take N II nickles now. NITE The band is attempting to continue their practise in spite I of the situation. They are still CASTLE HOTEL m to take their trip East in the Fully Licensed sprmg Bowmanville * And the motto for the week, m rroup is "Quality not Quanti- tY" Christmas 1973 Christmas ART MART Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Civic Centre, Oshawa FRIDAY, NOV. 9 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. SATURDAY, NOV. 10 from Noon to 5 p.m. SUNDAY, NOV. 11 from Noon to 5 p.m. Antiques, Crafts, gifts, decorations FUN FOR EVERYONE Admission .50 Children under 12 free, if accompanied by an adult. Dominion Securities Corp., Harris & Partners Ltd. is pleased to announce that as in previous years MISS MARGARET W. ALLIN is their AGENT for the Sale of CANADA SAVINGS BONDS 1973 Series in the BOWMANVILLE, NEWCASTLE ORONO AREA Miss Allin may be contacted at 55 Centre St., Bowmanville - 623-5607 You Mean I'm a Year Old Already? This little lady is Miss Ginette Robin Purdy, who celebrates her first birthday on November 8, 1973. She is the daughter of Brian and Carol Purdy, Bowmanville. Proud grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Purdy of Toronto and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Robinson of St. Catharines. Great-grandmother is Mrs. A. Bathgate, Port Hope and great-grandfathers are Mr. G. F. Purdy, Bowmanville, and Mr. H. Robinson, London, England. Let's Talk Education by Terry Hawkins FAILURE!! Failure is a burning and negative word. Failure is a word that recalis to the mind, experiences which are long gone, but still remembered as unpleasant. No one likes to fail. If you hadn't wanted to succeed you wouldn't have tried in the first place. The person who fails at a task and says, "I didn't care anyway", is usually using a defence mechanism - some- thing to protect his feelings and soften the blow. It is not a bad thing and most people have used this defence mech- anism sometimes. The danger ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION - BRANCH 178 ANNUAL POPPY BLITZ LAPEL POPPIES - THURS. & FRI., NOV. 8th&9th 'Let's Not Let the Poppies Die" comes from excessive use of it. Is failure good or bad? There are two schools of thought on this. Some people say that failure is part of life - it teaches a good lesson - and in that way is good. This is further supported by the idea that life is full of potential failure, situations and one must face failure and beat it to live a happy life. The other school of thought says that failure is bad and causes distress. People tend to withdraw into themselves and avoid any challenge - because they may fail. It is further felt by this second group that failure humiliates people and warps their attitude. I think the answer lies somewhere in-between. There are actually times when failure does good. But there are times when it does a great deal of harm. Take, for example, the case of a child who does a very poor job in a given task. Let's say he is reasonably capable of doing the job, but just doesn't put forth the effort. While his friends are practicing, study- ing, or doing whatever the task demands, he fools around. Would unearned suc- cess be good for him? Except in very special circumstances, I would say NO. He thinks he can succeed without any special effort - so why work? Sooner or later this student will run up against a task in which NOT to fail him would be dangerous. I don't think I'd like to fly in a plane if the pilot didn't really know his stuff, but got his licence anyway, because to fail him might have hurt his feelings. On the other hand, there are times when failure does no good at all. My philosophy here is that if success is in a person's best interest and doesn't hurt anyone else, then he should be given it, even though he may not have fulfilled every demand. Prob- ably the best example of this occurs in school. Let's say a student gets borderline marks - maybe even a couple of failures. But he has worked hard, he has tried, he has been improving, and he seems to have the ability. Why not pass him? It may be just the shot in the arm he needs, and it doesn't hurt anyone. This, of course, becomes less true as one approaches the higher grades. I think we have to be realistic about failure. I don't see how we can eliminate it in life. As long as we have people trying to do things, we are going to have some who don't do it well enough. Failure can teach us lessons - it can also devastate some people. I think the answer is to combine failure with attention and counsel. When someone fails there is a reason. That reason should be explained because the person would appreciate knowing his strengths and weaknesses. Sitting down with someone who has ust failed talking the situation over - helping him plan a new attack can be of great help. A personnel manager who annually hires mary girls told me recently that inany of the girls who apply for jobs are not hired, are so devastated that they don't even look for further employrrent. They can't believe they have failed. Now as part of thih particular firm's hiring procedure, the girls not hired are made to appreciate that while they don't have the particular talents needed by this com- pany, they are stiL good and valuable people and the tal- ents they do possEss can be valuable to another company producing a different product. The interview is handled so skilfully that the grl happily finds out she is not suited to the job and insteai of going away angry or depressed, she goes away feeling she has been fairly treatec and say- ing, "Boy - am I lucky I didn't take that jo . I'm sure not interested in that type of work". Failure cannot be eliminat- ed but with thoughtful hand- ling by genuinely interested people, the devastating effects can be turned into positive action - well worth the extra time it takes. Letter to Editor November 5, 1973 General Delivery, Port Perry Mr. Editor: Most of us have come to realize that we live in the age of hypocracy, but surely there must be a limit to the amount of hypocracy even politicians are capable of. I was one of the three thousand people who took part in the Maréh For Life to the House of Commons in Ottawa last weekend. We had come to show that we believe there is something special about human life, and to indicate our disagreement with existing abortion laws which, in effect, provide abortion on demand in certain cities because of the loose way in which the law is interpreted by hospitals. All four political parties were given the opportunity to speak to us. Only two parties chose to be honest. The New Democratie Party has always supported abortion. N.D.P. members in the House voted solidly in favor of the present regula- tions when they were passed, and so, the N.D.P. decided that rather than by hypocriti- cal, it would not send a spokesman. Social Credit, as the only party which supports the pro life movement, voted solidly in opposition to present abor- tion regulations and that party sent M.P. Rene Matte to say why. When the vote was taken on this matter all Liberal M.P.'s voted against the pro life movement (don't believe me - check Hansard).But on Nov- ember 3 the Liberals could not be honest enough to admit that. Instead they sent an M.P. who had voted in favor of abortion to tickle the ears of the pro life crowd by talking out of the other side of his mouth. But the most foolish exhibi- tion was put on by the Conservatives. When voting on abortion took place inside theHouse the Conservatives were divided. Some voted in favor of life. Others voted for death. It should have been a simple matter to find one of the Tory MP.s who had supported life in the House to greet the pro life crowd on November 3. Instead that party sent one of the men who had voted for abortion to place the blame on the Provincial Governments for not enforcing the law. Hypocracy. Bruce Arnold. WHEAT SALE TO BRAZIL Otto Lang, the minister res onsible for the Canadian Wheat Board, announced the sale of 22 million bushels of wheat to Brazil, valued at about $125 million. Shipments will be made from Atlantic and St. Law- rence ports ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE RESIDENTS OF BOWMANN YOU ARE NOW ELIGIBLE TO JOIN ORONO DISTRICT CREDIT UNION FOR INSURED SAVINGS AND LOW COST, INSURED1 FOR FURTHER INFORMATU CONTACT MRS. P. WERRY, TREAS. CHURCH ST. S., ORONO 983-5945 VILLE LOANS [ON 1