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EDITORIAL COMMENT Back to Basis ... and About Time! After several years of letting students flounder where the good old English language is concerned, it appears there is to be a change for the better with the Ministry of Education making English and Canadian History compulsory subjects. We were against their removal from the list years ago, naturally, we're delighted to receive news of the change and only hope it means that there will be more stress on these subjects not just at the secondary school level, but right down the line. There was a time in recent years when suddenly it came to light that students were being hampered in their learning process- es because they couldn't read properly or with sufficient speed to cover all the reading that had to be done. There was a great flap at that time to remedy the situation but we've yet to see many reports on the success or failure of the remedial reading program. We maintain that in this world where communication is an essen- tial fact of life, all students should receive expert guidance and teach- ing in the language they are to use throughout their lives. In this country of two languages, it would be a great asset for them to learn not just English but French as well because the additional language would enable them to communicate with people in Quebec and other parts of Canada and might just open doors for them when they launch out on a career in business or govern- mental service. Mainly though it's most impor- tant in our view for adults to know how to spell, how to construct a sentence and speak or write so they can be understood anywhere and as well know something about this great country we are happy to call home. Let's quit fooling around with the experiments and return to basics as quickly as possible. But, there will be a time lapse before the miracles will come to pass because right now there aren't too many of the current crop of young teachers who are too well versed in the English language. They are prod- ucts of the old system, unfortunate- ly, and could need considerable re-training. It Just Isn't Worth the Gamble! We've just been reading a report of court proceedings from Cobourg where two men were fined $250 each for shoplifting and placed on probation for two years, on condition that they were to stay out of any retail store in Canada for that period. Quite a sentence; but one that indicates judges are taking shoplifting much more seriously than has been the case. It should be mentioned that the two men had extensive records. The incident is mentioned because this is the time of year when shoplifting hits its peak and we hope that word of the above stiff sentence will discourage anyone in this area from placing themselves in a position where they could be similarly brought into court and fined for such an offence. In conversation with local store keep- ers we have learned that the problem of shoplifting is by no means an exclusive one to Cobourg, it happens here and at times reaches astounding proportions. Several cases have been reported in the court news over the past months and no doubt there will be more. We hope not. Stores are increasingly being -- ered by shortages' of -staff; apcially alert ones who are on the lookout for light-fingered customers who drop small items into their pockets and brazen their way past the checkout counter without pay- ing. Quite a few stores have found it economically feasible to hire special security people who watch custom- ers to see that they pay for the goods they take out the front door. The shortages of staff result from good help not being available, plus the need to cut down costs because of the increase in the minimum wage rates. We asked one retailer what he would do about staff when the minimum rate goes up to $2 an hour the first of the year, and he replied that he would just have to drop a couple of employees to stabilize the situation. He admitted that by doing so the customers would not be receiving the same quality of service as formerly, and the shoplifters might have an easier time, but he had no other choice. But, to get back to shoplifting, would you believe that most shoplifters are not hard up and steal items worth less than $10, yet these small articles can literally put them through an agonizing experience they'll regret for the rest of their lives. If they are convicted, they will then have a criminal record that could prevent them from travelling to other countries or even getting a responsible job. It could affect their socialstarrding aTdthe~humilftithg ordeal they'll go through in the courtroom could bring on a reaction that will stay with them the rest of their lives. Is it worth the risk? We don't think do! THE RIGHT GIFT The spiraling cost of living has ail of us concerned. We shop more carefully in order to stretch our dollars. But this takes time. No longer can we dash into a shop and pick up "something nice". Now we visit two or three shops, comparing quality, wearability, quantity or price until we find the right gift at a price we can afford to pay. Christmas shopping this year will undoubtedly take more time as we try to get the same number and quality of gifts for the same amount of money (or less!) than we spent last year. Traditionally, this is a time when we open our hearts and our purse strings just a little wider. We try to please our loved ones with just the right gift; we smile at strangers; we think about other people. There is one gif t you can give which is beyond price, yet costs you no money. You don't have to shop for it, ine up to pay for it, or gift wrap it. When you give a blood donation, you give the gift of life. Amid the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations when you are busier than ever, you may think "I'il do it later. A few weeks won't matter." You're wrong. There is no manufactured sub- stitute for human blood. Modern technology has put men on the moon, but scientists cannot reproduce blood in the laboratory. When a patient needs a blood donation, time is crucial; for him there is no "later". A blood donation takes 30 minutes of your time. You are not paid for your blood, nor is the patient charged for it. Itis a heart to heart gift, made possible through the blood transfusion service of the Canadian Red Cross Society. Toys break; sweaters wear out; candy, toiletries and tobacco are consumed. All are gifts which bring joy to the recipient, but remember to give as well the gif t of life. During the holiday season, give blood. PERFECT SETTING It's br-r-r-r, It's cold, it's horrible, The wet dark steps, incredible, The sun is hazy, east and west, And all I care to do is rest - If I can. It's winter time And part of our Canadian clime - And it will pass. It always does After the blizzards and frosts fuss. But Canadian winters are truly right, And I'm surer than ever as the pass, No matter what is dark or bright, They're a perfect setting for Christmas. by Marion Taylor Ford Durham County's Great Family Journal Estblished 119 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating q The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 E O 'Q I r O o * <J L pi' Phone Produced every Wednesday by Phone 623 3303 THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 623-3303 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES GEO. P. MORR IS PATRICK GOULD DONALD BISHOP Eclitor Publisher Business Mgr. 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Alfhough every precaufion e be faken toavoid-error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertismiq n iDs columns on the understandim that it wiI nof be hable for any error in the advertisement published heeunder unless a proof of such advertisement s rèquested in writing by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Sfatesman business office duy signed by the advertiser and with such error or rorrect on olainly nofed in .ritinq thereon and in that case if any error so noted is not corrected by Tht canadian afesman îfs.liabîlity shall not exceed such a porftion 6f the entire cost of sucn advertisement as hil span , c upied by the noted error bears fo the whole space occupied by such advertisernt Now It's Our Turn (From The Wingham but what of our children and Advance-Times) grandchiidren? Sureiy few of us are All living residents of North so careless or unfeeling that we will America over the age of eight are knowlingiy condemn them to lives of aware that they live in a separate unending hardship. The Creator world - a part of this planet where, placed us on a bountiful earth. It is with few exceptions, we have dwelt high time we paid some attention to like pampered millionaires. the way we waste His gifts. The poorest among us are well A few weeks ago this column fed and clothed by the standards of mentioned the absurdity of a Asia and Africa, even by the levels Toronto hotel room message which of existence in Latin America. The begged guests to save electricity average Canadian family which has when those same guests had only to to live on unemployment insurance look out of the windows to see benefits receives as much in a monstrous office towers biazing with month as an Angolan coffee worker lights onevery floor, day and night. is paid in a year or more. The Toronto Star recently car- The most meagre Canadian diet nied a story to the effect that ieaving supplies more meat and other the iights on in these huge buildings protein foods in a month than many is actually an economy. First, said people in India consume in a The Star, it takes a great deal of lifetime. energy to re-start these fluorescent Being human, and therefore lights and, second, they heip to heat basically<seifis1h, it is hardly the buildings. surprising that we have chosen to True, perhaps, but we doubt it. ignore such inequalities within the One engineer was recently quoted as family of man. When we did require saying that if fluorescent lights are a reasoned excuse we usually unneededforaslittleas15minutesit protested that there was not the saves energy to turn them off. As far means to rectify such a vast as heat goes - just try to warm your imbalance of wealth - despite a hands over a fluorescent tube. legion of agencies gight here in As usul, the pressure is on the Canada begging the generosity of littie guy to do the, saving. The 'affluentfarnilies for even afwToronto towers are stil bazing helpings from their bowl of plenty. away night and day. Most city Now, it sees, the fates are offices are heated to the point of about to. bing us sharply to our suffocation in winter and air-con- senses. With impendng shprtages of ditioned to near freezing in summer. food, fuel . . . alm st every The lights ar e stil gowing over the commodity that one can naite, we freeway networks and creating - as may find that our wealt~ has finaly they always did - adoubtfuisafety purchased poverty; that~ our dollars factor. are, after al. dirty piecmes of paper The storeys-high advertising that do not even make édible soup. signs are as brilliant as ever. There The stark truth is, we have are stil 600 light bulbs in the ceiling wasted. Forgetting the precepts of of the coveregd driveway to the rear our forebears who carved their entrance of 'one airport hotel in homes and ours from the raw Toronto. Thousands of cars stili pour wilderness because they were fiee- in and out ofthe cities with their lone ing the poverty of Europe, we have occupants. , grown 5t careless that we have As usuai the heart-rending eaten Up rnost of our reserves with appeal to the public is not matched virtually none of our own wizards to by realistic approaches to the shout "Stop!". problem on the part of those who It is true that we wil neither have the power to make worthwhiie starve nor freeze this year, nor next savings.i C Orner /or CHRISTMAS COMET I'm cros Astronomers tell us won( We, well might soon see A cornet to go down in history As one of the greatest. Comet Kahoutek, they say Might light the skies of Christmas Brighter than Sirius, wonder star, The La And be seen by all near and far. wer Won't it be fun to watch the sky And s Put on its own Christmas lights, way The Fi up high1re Remei An evil omen, they said of old Such a comet up there in the sky. One moi I asked our Paul, telescopically One n bold, Their 1h If he were conceited, and if not, To bu; why? From his massive frame, his eyes Some ga met mine re They smiled, and positively did Unhur shine, Their gi "The comet is expected to reach sp perihelion1They Dec. 27, for six weeks, before and after, And are It should be visible to the naked To re- eye". God he He told me, that's the fact of the To co nI'm cr /poets ssing my fingers, and dering why. -by Marion Taylor Ford AFTERTHOUGHT n memory of Johnnie,. Regt. No. 123168) st Post sounded, prayers e said, olemn words were spoken, nders poppies blossomed d, mbrance Day's own token. ment's silence. Was that all, moment's reminiscence? ves they gave beyond recall y us safe existence. ave their lives; and some turned t; and some dismembered. fts likewise should not be urned. too must be remembered. the memories packed away use next November? p us every hour and day nstantly remember. -E. V. Eddyvean Exports Up Canada's exports in Octo- ber, seasonally adjusted, rea- ched their highest level this year, totalling $2.14 billion - up considerably from Septem ber's total of $1.98 billion. lu5 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 16, 1948 Tom Cartwright, has comp- leted another record year of paper salvage in Bowman- ville. On foot, he collected bundles and sold waste paper to the value of $280. Tom now holds the individual champ- ionship of Canada. Commen- cing as a war effort in 1941, he has collected and sold $1,949.66 worth of waste paper. Candle bearers in the Im- pressive C.G.I.T. service at Trinity Church on Sunday were Marion Dippell, Mary Alldread, Marilyn Miller, Gloria Robson and Bernice Stocker. Assisting with the offering were Gwen Griffith, Marjorie Mutton, Mary Pick- ard, Betty Grant, Joan Lux- ton, Glenys Nicholas and Eileen Spicer. Mr. Mel Staples, Orono and District President of the Sunday School gave a timely and appropriate talk to child- ren and adults at the white Gift Service at St. Paul's Church last Sunday. Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Best, Wesleyville, a euchre party was held of ten tables. Men's high prize went to Bruce Lindsay, low to Howard Berry. Women's High was won by Muriel Mason and the low by June Inch. Ladies Berean Class met in Ebenzer Sunday School on Friday. Officers elected were Pres. Ann Holt, 1st Vice Mrs. W. Brown, 2nd. Vice Mrs. G. F. Annis, 3rd. Vice Mrs. Keith Ormiston, Sec. Mrs. Will Bickle,Asst.Sec. Mrs. Charles Found, Treas. Mrs. Charles Osborne. 49 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. lth, 1924 Brookdale Nurseries are holding a Christmas Flower Show, commencing Saturday, Dec. 13, and daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Come and see the largest winter garden, east of Toronto. The president of the Domin- ion Organ and Piano Company of Bowmanville, Mr. J. W. Alexander, was elected Presi- dent of Canadian Piano and Organ Manufacturer's Assoc- iation, at the annual meeting held at the National Club, Toronto, recently. There are 80 employees at present with Durham Textiles Ltd., Bowmanville manufact- urers' of Super Hosiery for men, women and children with a weekly payroll of $1,000.00. Durham Textiles Ltd. is capitalized at $175,000. About $10,000. of this stock is held locally. Officers of the company are Pres. W. H. Wright, Vice Pres. H. L. Quinn, Secretary-Treas. J. J. Gray, Director J. 0. Paterson. General Manager H. C. Boul ter. The United Counties of Northumberland and Durham are having a home built on the 1,000 acres they recently purchased in Haldimand township as a forestry reserve for the new forester, Reeve Thos. Honey of Ainwick town- ship. A deputation from the Bowmanville Soldiers Club composed of Dr. G. C. Bonny- castle, Major R. J. Gill and Dr. V. H. Storey addressed the Town Council at its regular December meeting regarding a suitable Soldier's Memorial Sugaur and S Sp'ce| By Bill Smiley THINK YOU'RE SICK? HERE'S A FEW CURES First, we'Il do a book review this week. A fascinating volume has come into my hands. It is called "Drink Your Troubles Away." The title along would sell a lot of copies. I can just hear the boozers say, "Hey. That's for me. It's time somebody wrote a sensible book." And then there's the name of the author. It is John Lust. What an intriguing combination. Drink and Lust. All for 95 cents. It's not quite as exciting inside as it is on the cover, because it's a natural foods tract. Unless you can get excitied over the thought of a brimming glass of carrot juice, or start to drool - at the image of a cabbage pie, it may not be your meat, if the author will pardon the expression. I was a bit cynical at first, but I read on with growing interest, and by the time I had gone through a few chapters, I was engrossed. I'm a meat and taties man, myself. You know what that will get me? I quote: "Wrong diet brings with it constipated bowels, hem- morhoids, anemia, defective secre- tions, acidity, ulcers, bloating, arthritis, headache, nervousness, liver and kidney ailments, heart disease, feeble-mindnedness and a thousand other ailments . ." Well, I think that's a pretty sweeping statement. I have never been constipated in my life. Lots of the people I know who follow the same diet as I are constipated. I do have hemmorhoids and arthritis occasionally, and I am definitely becoming feeble-minded, but I've had none of those other things, though I try not to think of my liver. Defective secretions indeed. What kind are you supposed to have? Effective secretions? Don't think I'm knocking this book. I think John Lust is on the right track, even though it has many turnings. I haven't seen any signs of feeble-mindedness among natural food fiends. Let us say, charitably, that there is a certain feebleness of will. My son comes home with his little bag of unpolished rice. He cooks some for breakfast, taken at 12 noon. He gives us a lecture on what harm we are going our bodies, putting poisons in them. During the afternoon, he smokes eight of my cigarettes, though, theoretically, he doesn't smoke. That evening, at dinner, he decides, just to keep peace in the family, to break his habit for once, and eat meat. He eats about a pound and quarter of the roast beef we can afford only because my wife rushed out and puta second mortgage on the car. How would you like to have to kill a fatted calf? That story would never have made the Bible at today's meat prices. My daughter, who is also a natural foods freak, has even less will power. Af ter a few weeks on rice and beans and macaroni, she comes home with her husband, a sensible young chap who would eat stewed rats if he were hungry enough. She goes straight to the refrig- erator, wl ips open the frozen mneat department, and starts muttering, "Meat! Glorious meat!", the saliva running down her chin. But this is a good book, no doubt. The title refers to the fact that we can drink all our health problems away with vegetable juice. What a way to go! It is based on vitamins. Take iron, for example. If you are short of iron in your blood, you can have one of 40 different symptoms of debility. Space forbids the listing of them, but a few are: "face alternately flushed and pale; murky, yellowish gray face; crying involuntarily; fearful of losing reason; tense genital organs; swollen ankles; bed wetting; film before eyes; desire to carry arms over head; partial deafness . . ." How would you like to crawl into bed with somebody who had no iron at all? Bit of a nightmare, what? Apparently the best cure for this is wild blackberries. So, remember. If you are suffering from an iron deficiency, and at the same time want a fulfilled sex life, keep a bushel of wild blackberries handy by the bed. Lay in a good store. They're a little scarce in February. If you're short on calcium, it's just as bad. Here are a few of the 48 symptoms: "laborious thinking; looking into distance; incoherent speech; afternoon headache; dizzi- ness in open air; staggering upon arising; early sleepiness . ." Does that sound more like Uncle George, who has developed a fondness for the grape, than someone suffering a lack of cal- cium? It does to me. Anyway, the best cure is turnip leaves. Moral: carry around some turnip leaves and lay off the hooch. I wish I had space to tell you what ghastly things can happen to you if you are short of the other vitamins. Ill give one example of each, with its cure. Potassium: feeling of sand in eyes - dandelion leaves. Magnesium: cholera -oranges. Silicone: fingertips burn - Calimyrna figs. Chlorine - purple extremities - asparagus. That's just a sample. If I meet someone with cholera, burning fingertips, sand in his eyes, and purple extremities, I imagine I'll give him a wide berth. But don't say I didn't warn you. You're going to look pretty funny, though, going around with a pocketful of dandelion leaves and another of asparagus. Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Nov. 28, 1973 and - &Distant-Pa.,. ÇtC;NA