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2 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville. September 17, 1975 . Section Two EDITORIA L COMMENT Rules Should Whoever was responsible for bringing in that senseless law about no election advertising in newspap- ers on the Wednesday before a Thursday election date, should do something to change it before another election rolls around. We would also suggest most vehement- ly that Thursday as the day for voting should also be changed. Here's what's happened this year and this election. We publish on Wednesday so can't accept for publication any partisan political advertising for this edition. We are even on thin ice publishing accounts of any political meetings that have been held since last week's paper was published for fear it might be construed by the authorities as favoring one party more than another in effect free advertising. That means that eleétors are being denied political information of a local nature eight days before an election takes place. Stupid! The Thursday election day is just as idiotic, because it will occur one day after we have gone to press, leaving readers in this and hundreds of other communities depending Ontario Tries (From the Cobourg Star) The well-intentioned, but asinine new Ontario elections law prohibits advertising in Wednesday newspap- ers, one day before the Thursday election. Further, at the beginning of the campaign period, advertising was banned earlier than 22 days before polling. The result is that in the typical weekly newspaper in Ontario, there are only three issues in which advertising could be placed for this election. No wonder it's dull. Ontario elections are held on Thursday. Most weeklies publish on Wednesday. Final election advertis- ing must appear in the weekly press a full eight days before polling day. Over the years, the newspapers have tried their best to stir up some election interest. Apparently the candidates for office have the opposite idea - the less fuss, the less mess, the less involvement or bother - the easier to slip back into office, or to slip in a new face without upsetting anyone. The Cobourg Star publishing three times weekly is not affected. There is still same-week advertising in the Monday edition. Also, the dailies can publish advertising on Tuesday. But throughout the wide, wide stretches of small-town and rural Ontario, there will have been no Greatness in We like to think that we live in the era of the common man, that all persons are worthy of equal respect -- and equal disrespect. But we also live in a time of excessive adulation of certain types of persons - or Personalities, with a capital "P", as it is now fashionable to call them. Many of those who receive this adulation are, of course, persons of authentic distinction. But some are of questionable distinction. Not all the stars of entertainment and sport are cast in heroic moulds. We sometimes let ourselves be exces- sively impressed by celebrities who seem to be well-known mainly for being well-known. And there are those big-shots among us whose big-shottery is, by the skills of the communications experts, magnified all out of proportion. Our adulations, quite silly though some of them are, tend to engender in many of us feelings of inadequacy and even of failure. Very few of us play starring roles in life. Eminence and greatness - as we generally judge such things -- evade ail but a handful of us. We find that life's selection processes are often capri- cious and sometimes cruel. When Bernard Shaw was a drama critic he was impressed by an actor playing a minor role in one act of a play. In his review Shaw desci ibed this actor as "a great artist in small things." The best that most of us can hope for is that we mav be great Be Changed solely on information from commit- tee rooms and the daily media for the election results. We can only follow up with election information that will be at least six days old and probably seven by the time the papers reach rural subscribers. Such a situation is not only asinine, it's unfair to hundreds of thousands of readers who depend on their weekly newspapers for detail- ed local information. And it's unfair to the weeklies themselves who are being jeopardized in their efforts to supply up-to-date news on local happenings. The knuckleheads who dreamed it all up should be taken to task by whatever government gets into power so it will be straightened out before another election rolls around. We shall do everything we can through our newly elected member of the legislature and through our newspaper association to see that the inequities and idiocies in the legislation are changed as quickly as possible. There is no justifiable reason apparent why the hundreds of Wednesday weekly papers and their subscribers should be treated as second class citizens. a Stupid Law election acvertising for a full eight days before election day. The candidates should not be surprised if no one remembers their names by the time the polls open. Is it Russ Kirkpatrick? Or John Rove? Or Isobel Taylor? Or Taylor Caldwell? Or Lawrence Beckett? Or Davis Cup? And which Nixon is he? We say it's a toss-up between Mitch Hepburn and William Arthur Tremaine. Well, somebody made the law, don't blame us. A few newspapers throughout the province are publishing one day early on Tuesday so they can carry election ads. We do not agree with this policy, that regular advertisers, particularly food stores, should be asked to accommodate their plans to what is essentially a bit of stupid legisiation. If there is to be an eleventh-hour ban on newspaper advertising (as there has been on radio and television), to eliminate any last minute assault that cannot be answered, then election signs and billboards should come down as well. Newspapers should stop re- porting all political matters and stories. Of course, election day nii'ght come and go without anybody noticing it, but then that might be convenient after all. Small Things artists in small things - and that can be a very good best. Let us rejoice in the achievements of those who "make it big" in the things that make life better for all of us. But let us remember that personal greatness is not limited to those who do the big things and get the applause and the admiration of the manv. Greatness can also be a quality for those who do unexciting things, routine things, small things which contribute to the good life for ail. A CornO r for Pots ELECTION APATHY Very soon we go to the polls, Yel there's little or no excitement, As along our life rolls - What apathy - what confinement. This is your job And it's mine To show some interest, or the cob With no kernels or the vine Without grapes, we'll gripe. Some work hard, politicians, JournalistS to us inform Yet, we, the Peophe in procrastinations Apathetically, appear to it scorn - -- Marion Ford Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 121 years ago in 1854 Also ncorporating The Bowmanvilhe News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3K9 týNA JOHNM. JAME Editor-Publishe GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. s re BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appearing on this proof. Permission to reproduce in whole or In part and in any form whatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset process in a publication, must be obtained from the publisher and the printer. Any unauthorized reproduction will be subject to recourse !n law." $8.00 a year - 6 months $4.50 Foreign - $1000 a year strictly in advance Although every precaution will be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable for any error in the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof of such advertisement is requested in writing by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertIser and with such error or corrections plainly noted in writing thereon, and in that case if any error so noted Is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occu, ied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. The. by John (A nonsens introductioni system in Ca other things) The attract system is n advantage g standardizati ments all ove also that it isr work with ba multiples of t reason that N cation of the 6 shortly to bei While gove admit that measuremen base of sixty1 may cause so adjustment, i that the stand standard yea same in dura way in whi could be mad would be toe Letter1 R.R. 5,1 Dear Sir: I am writi think it will but to expres am sure o seeing the c beautiful tre Street. Maple a century or Let me say know the reb Street N. is b road has bee 15 times in th and some of h the Mayor h trees more would be cu and lived on years and it h beautiful dri bumps and i 1 would l advantage o highway wl speedway, es port days alo thickly popu more so in th We have one here connect One surve regulationsc shoulder an each side o natural wate 100 feet westo we built ou regulationsc vert at our( bas not to m any water go nine years il Several oft have been b have culvert In closing I is stupid reg so called e knowing loca is destroying trees. Regi( was suppose planning and bas done isi much that( increased ov two years. Thanki Si Wilb Metriculation of Time n Squirelly of the earth around the sun, a will actually be working 96 old e satire on the proposal that did not receive a hours, they welcomed the five of the metric great deal of support.) day weekend that will occur as nada and a few Thus, a minute will contain a result of the switch to a ten o . 100 seconds, and hour will day week. However, since ion of the metric have 100 minutes, and a day additional employees will be ot so much the will comprise 10 hours. Simi- needed to make up the other gained through larly, a week will have ten five days, that is, two shifts of on of measure- days (names for the extra employees working five days r the world, but three days are solicited) and each, the labour force will much simpler to ten weeks will make one automatically be doubled. The sed, as it is, on month. It is at this point, of Ministers of Industry and en. It is for this course, that our smaller than Labour together with many ew Time, metri- optimum orbit tends to foul leaders of the business com- o minute hour, ls things up. The new year, munity have hailed this as the introduced. designated an "anno", will, of greatest boon to Canada since rnment officials necessity, be only 3.65 months. the establishment of the changing time A ten anno period, formerly a Foreign Investment Review t from its present decade, will become a decan- Agency. to a base of ten no, and our current century As well, there will be a five ome problems of will be labelled a hectanno. year lag in the implementat- t should be noted In order to achieve this ion of New Time by the United dard day and the conversion, it will be neces- States who will not institute it r will remain the sary to alter somewhat the until 1985. Canada's target ation. (The only durations of the second, min- date of January 1, 1980 will ch these latter ute and hour as we now know give this country a tremen- e to fit metrically them. For ease in recognition, dous competitive advantage, enlarge the orbit equivalents for the new and they feel. old time components are as Clearly, the-Canadian appe- to Editor follows: tite for hockey will be more Snew hour equals 2.4 old nearlyrsated under New Time Bowmanville hours. as the one hour playing time 1 new minute equals 1.44 old becomes almost two and a half minutes. old hours of action. Games ng this not that I 1 new second equals .864 old starting at the traditional time change anything, seconds. of eight o'clock (8.33 hours in ss my own, and I To convert from Old Time to New Time) will continue until thers, shock at New Time, simply add up all well past midnight, that is, ten utting of so many the seconds from midnight to o'clock. For that matter, es along Liberty the desired time change, almost all the sports will be es that have taken multiply by 10 and divide by affected because of the neces- * more to grow. 86,400. Thus, 8:15 a.m. be- sity of timing in most of those at the start that I comes 3.44 hours New Time. areas. uilding of Liberty However, an official stres- A bright note here is that ong overdue. This sed that, in the government's many of the wheezing joggers n surveyed 10 to on-going efforts to be com- whom one sees so frequently he past few years pletely fair to all sectors of the plodding along the streets and the surveyors and country, those communities park byways will be able to ave told me, no who decide by plebicite that run a mile in four minutes than necessary they do not want their time (5.76 old minutes). t. I have farmed metrified, will be permitted to Getting up at five o'clock this road for 30 stay on Old Time. will no longer be a problem for îas always been a The Honorable Yodark farmers since that will lie ve even with the ("Ram-it-through") Critch, midday. holes. the minister responsible for And finally, with only a ten ike to know the the implementation of New hour day, the depressing f a broad bare Time, has conceded privately national news at eleven hich will be a that this may raise some o'clock will not appear. specially on Mos- problems. Time, gentlemen, please. ng a road that is "Television schedules, for ilated and will be instance, will have to be ONREP R e next few years. printed in two languages," lie e a mile west of said, "that is, metric and Between 8 September 1975 .ing 401 to 7. standard, as will cereal boxes and 14 September 1975 the yor told me that which will have to give the Ontario Provincial Police at call for a wide bi-measure time for the snap, Newcastle investigated seven- d wide ditch on crackle and pop to die down teen Motor Vehicle Collisions f the road. The before the kids can dig in." and more than one hundred rcourse is about "As well," lie added, "Quebec general occurrences. of the road; when bas indicated that they expect The seventeen Motor r present home to opt out of the plan. Ottawa, Vehicle Collisions resulted in called for a cul- the nation's capital, will have seven persons being injured driveway, which both, of course." and six persons facing y knowledge had Asked to comment, a mem- charges under the Highway through it in the ber of the federal cabinet Traffic Act. bas been there. merely shrugged his should- Some of the general occur- the bouses that ers in Gallic style and said rences which were investigat- uilt since do not that it was nothing more than ed by the Newcastle Officers s. a fuddle duddle in a teapot. were as follows: There were [would say that it "Let them eat 7.285 grams five investigations into ulations made by of cake," lie said in perfect "Theft" offences, three in- experts without Metric.. vestigations into "Break and al conditions that Despite these minor draw- Enter" offences and two a lot of beautiful backs, there will be many investigations into "Wilful onal government advantages to New Time. Damage" complaints. d to give better A major impact will be felt Four persons have been service, but allit int the industrial sector, charged with offences under increase costs so according to government eco- the Liquor Control Act, one our taxes have nomists. Although some union person las been charged with er 40 per cent in leaders have expressed mild 'Impaired Driving" and two concern over the fact that, persons have been charged ng you I am, under existing contracts, em- with offences under the Crim- ncerely, ployees who are committed to inal Code. a five day, forty hour week No matter where or when Turning on the Baby .i-the Baby Is nothing.safe anymore? Watch your weight! Quit smoking! Beware of sex in hot weather! Lay off the gripe water Gripe water? Oh, woe to the world's wailing wet-set, the man said gripe water, that balm of bedraggled parents who have been spooning it into infants for 150 years and listening 10 the beliows of indigestion fade info blessed silence. The latest menace to the human race has been ferreted out by a British researcher who found a 42-year-old mother of three had all the classic symptoms of alcoholism. And her secret lust was neither loMy gin nor high-priced Scotch, not beer nor stout nor 'alf-and-alf'. The sot was turning on with gripe water, slugging back four to six bottles a day. And guess who's warning the people of Ontario about it? The Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, that's who. But there is some small hope, reports the current issue of the foundation's Journal. It quotes the manufacturers of gripe water as arguing that although their product might contain as much as five per cent alcohol, an average dose for babies is the equivalent of drinking two ounces of beer in 24 hours. Nevertheless, Britain's Avon Courn- cil on Alcoholism warns even this could give the baby a dependency. So next time you overhear one baby gurgle to another "pass the bottle", don't bet they're drinking milk. --Examiner you drive, there's no time when you can safely ignore Highway warning signs and pavement markings. They warn you of curves, intersec- tions, railroad crossings. N ýN InIi the Dim and ~4IDistant Past 25 Years Ago Thursday, September 7, 1950 Miss Stewart is again in charge of the Sixth Line School, states the news from Kendal. and Mrs. Evan Quan- Kendal, and Mrs. Evan quan- trill at McLeans. Services on Sunday at Ebenezer were very ably cared for by Mrs. Hopkins who gave a very inspiring address. Mrs. Jack Elson (nee Elsie Oke) Bowmanville was the guest soloist. Reverend Gillis, of London Centennial Church, was guest of his brother-in-law Reverend G. Empey. on Sunday and delivered an inspiring address at the Solina Church Service. Miss Olive Rankine, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rankine, Haydon, has been awarded a $200 vocal scholar- ship by the Royal Conserva- tory of Music, Toronto. There are now 23 Teachers on the staff of Bowmanville Public Schools. On opening day at Ontario Street 285 pupils enrolled. At Central 482 enrofled, and at the High School there are between 340-350. Kirk Everett, Mrs. D. But- tonshaw and Mrs. E. White were lucky winners of the special games that offered a ten dollar bill as a prize at the Kinsmen Monster Bingo on Friday. Mrs. Winnifred Fox, Tor- onto, a summer resident of the cove was instantly killed on Saturday in a head on colli- sion. 49 Years Ago Thursday, September 23, 19%i, Mr. Sam Snowden, Bow- manville, has returned from officiatin'g at a circuit of fairs in eastern Ontario. The Women's Canadia.n Club will hold it's fir- meeting of the season in the Anglican Parish Hall, New- castle on Monday, when Mrs. Arthur Van Koughnet, Hon. Pres. of the Soldier's Comforts will speak on her work. Those wishing to go by bus please phone Mrs. D.B. Simpson. Nurse Lena E. Taylor has forwarded interesting letters to her sister Mrs. Everett Cryderman, of Hampton, from Behludin, China. At the Enniskillen School Fair winners in the pullet class were Ted Woodyard, Myrtle Brooks, Francis Thompson, Mabel Beech, Lor- ne Annis and Irene Cameron. Pumpkin-Lorne Annis, Alice Thompson, Edgar Wilson, Fred Trewin, Adelaide Annis, and Lorne Hooper. Coconut Macaroons - Lorna Hooper, Grace Farrell, Irene Camer- on, Helen Start, Nina Hodgson and Doris Griffen. Public Speaking-Clarence Avery, Harold Webber, Willie Wal- lace, Donald Simpson, Grace Werry, Myrtle Brooks. Martyn s Recreation Club has just put the finishing touches on their bowling alleys. New leagues will be formed and Saturday nights will be farmer's night. We reserve alleys for ladies. and By Bil Smiley Now That's Fishing "I wonder what the poor people are doing today?" murmured my fishing mate, as we lay back on a bed of moss, our bellies stuffed with fried fillet of pickerel, looked up at a huge blue sky and lit a cigarette. We had just finished a shore dinner, prepared by our guide, and had nothing in the world to do but have a little rest and go back and catch some more fish. No wives nattering, children squabbling, telephone ringing, tires squealing, newspapers blatting headlines. No decisions to make, disputes to handle, compromises to make, people to get sorted out, problems to solve. It may not be paradise, but Northern Saskatchewan makes a pretty fair approximation to it, if you like fishing, and clean air, and a complete lack of tension, noise and pollution. Some of the weekly newspaper people had elected to go on a fishing trip in some of the best fishing country in the world. It was like asking a boozer to go on a wine-tasting trip through Southern France. We were guests of the Saskatche- wan Department of Tourism and Renewable Resources, quite a mouthful. And fine hosts they were. They supplied transportation, accommodation, boats and guides. All we had to buy was our food. Don't ever tell me again that Saskatchewan means endless miles of prairie. More than half the province makes up some of the most striking wilderness in Canada, thousands of square miles of lakes and forest. And they're not just bragging about that fishing. I had read of it, and seen some of it on television. It's real. Time and again you'll see two, or even three people in one boat, all with a fish on the line. Some of the fish-hogs from Ontario were literally hysterical after half a day's fishing. It begins like this. The guide takes you out to a spot, and you troll slowly. In five minutes you've caught a pike that would have delighted you back home. "Better throw it back. Let hiri grow up," mutters the guide, iaconicaily. You are ready to clutch that four-pound pike to your breast and cry, tearfully: "Nobody's gonna get this baby away from me." Too late. The guide has unhooked the fish and let it swim away. In the next 10 minutes, you've thrown back four, about the same size. Suddenly, your fishing partner ties into a good one, and with a lot of reel-sçreeching and general excite- ment, he lands one about nine pounds. "Yeah, we'll keep dat one. He's not bad," says the guide gloomily. And so on. Same with pickerel. If you hit a hot spot, you can "fill up," that is, catch your quota for the day, in half an hour. Quotas are generous, and there are no fewer than 12 species of game fish in the province. So much for the fishing. It's so good that a four-year-old chimpan- zee or an 84-year-old senile grand- mother could catch fish. I know. I caught one over nine pounds. He was only seven when we netted him, but he's been growing steadily since. Aside from the fishing, there is the magnificent feeling of being away from it all. Miles and miles and miles of clean water and thousands of acres of bush, and little old you right in the middle of it. Most of the northern lakes have only a few outfitters located on them, and the government, to cheers from me, is not leasing more shcre property. Without government int&- vention, I can see these beautiful, lonely lakes ravaged by motor- boats, ringed with cottages, and soggy with pollution in a very few years. With 20-odd assorted bodies, men, women and children, and a most congenial group we were, I was dropped off, after a bone-rattling, seven-hour bus ride, at Jan Lake. We were all pretty pooped, and I hit the jackpot. It was my first experience of that renowned west- ern hospitality. My hostess, Mrs. Jean Martin, showed me to a fine, modern, log cabin, completely outfitted with everything including indoor waterworks and sleeping room for eight. I had it all to myself. It was like walking deep into the jungle and being shown to a room at the Ritz. The Martins couldn't do enough for me. They don't serve food at their camp (you cook your own) but insisted I eat all my meals with them, and refused any payment. Gàrnet, the husband, and Bernard, No. 1 son, fixed me up with a cap, a jacket, a fishrod and tackle, and Mrs. Martin insisted on making a shore dinner for me. Highlight of my whole trip, perhaps, was an hour's flight over the area, at fairly low level, with Bernard Martin at the controls. He flies an ancient but sturdy Aeronca, and it was my first flight in a small, light aircraft for many a year. My wife would have had a stroke if she'd seen her old boy climb into that. It was quite a thrilling flight, with a view of lakes and islands as far as you could see. It was made even more exciting by the facts that I had no parachute, there was only one engine, there was no place to land if the motor conked, except on a laki And we had no pontoons. One other circumstance made the whole trip a good one. My fishing companion was Barry Wenger -f Wingham, a friend of 25 years. was just by accident we were thrown together, but I was glad. There's nothing quite so harrowing as spending two days in a boat with someone who gets on your nerves. Barrie and I had a great time, talking about our grandchildren, and agreeing that we get bigger fish than this back on the Bruce Peninsula. .ui