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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, June 16, 1976 Section Two There's Power Those with clear consciences or poor hearing must have been about the only ones who weren't awakened early Monday morning by that severe electric storm. We weren't in either of those categories so eventually gave up trying to sleep and went downstairs to watch and listen. Also, as is the custom, our imagination began to work overtime and our thoughts turned to lightning hitting the television aerial, running down the wire and blowing the picture tube out on the floor .... not a comforting thought, but one others probably had the same night. We thought of disconnecting the aerial from the set and that brought a new trend of thought. The bare wires would still be there, dangling in midair so the bolt of lightening, instead of blowing the machine apart would be diverted to some- thing else, drapes, the chesterfield or some such, starting a fire., Finally, we decided to leave the aerial attached and take a chance, the reruns might suffer until the fall season but it would be better than monkeying around with it while the The Volunteer Civilization apparently is of such a nature that the further we progress in it the more difficult we find it to live together. We are beginning to think about how deficient life on earth would be if we allowed the mechanization of living to deprive us of the contacts we gain in voluntary association with our neighbors. Major-General Georges P. Vanier, Governor Gen- eral of Canada from 1959 until his death in 1967, said to a Canadian Welfare Council conference of community leaders from across Canada early in 1962: "as our society grows ever more and more complicated and more personal, the need for voluntary work becomes daily greater, for it is essential that there be preserved a balance between complexity and conscience". One does not need to have a romantically heightened view of giving oneself away, but only to remember that the contribution made by individuals and groups voluntarily is the real foundation of democratic society, and that it is one of the ways in which, in spite of mechanization and automation, we remain human. "Society", as it is used in the Letter, is the kind of life we live in organized communities, where in- terests and purposes are common to all. A "social" person does not mean one who enjoys parties, but, as Dr. Samuel Johnson defined "social" in his dictionary of 1755: a person "fit for society." Besides social, there are personal values in voluntary service. The volunteer enjoys the unique quality of experience that is his when he shares viewpoints and works with others in pursuit of both individual and common goals. The "why" of working with others is not greatly important. The in Those Clouds storm was on. We went out into the kitchen and watched the greatest show of fireworks that anyone could ask for, accompanied by thumps of thunder. Through it all, even when the refrigerator eut in suddenly and we jumped about a foot, we couldn't help wondering if that gigantic source of power couldn't be tapped and preserved somehow. There must have been enough electricity generated way up there to supply half the province with enough juice to keep all the lights, motors and production machinery going for weeks or months. What a waste it was bounding back and forth, doing nothing much but making things miserable for light sleepers and causing a few fires. One thing it did show for certain was that Mother Nature when she wants to be obstreperous, can outdo anything mere mortals are capable of achieving. We may be able to send men to the moon and even to Mars, but there's no way we can match a good old-fashioned thunder storm for striking terror into the hearts of us tiny earth beings. She's the greatest, anytime. in our Society Talmudic principle is: "A man should perform a righteous deed, even if he does so only for ulterior motives, because he will thus learn to do the right for its own sake." You may wish for a sense of accomplishment, for the adventure of something new, for a change of pace from the workaday world or for self-expression, or you may simply wish to belong. There is no better way to banish the blues or to counteract the stress of world crises than by engaging in thoughful work with and for others. The end rèsult is self-fulfilment, which is on a higher plane than self-interest. There is no stereotyped way of being altruistic. Every person in a free society can hélp in his individual way to shape it; that is what sets him apart from those in a slave society. He has the opportunity to contribute ideas, opinions, inter- ests and abilities. Giving service, and not putting on a show, is the distinguishing feature of the good member of society. Charles Dickens gave us a portrait of the poseur in Little Dorrit: Mr. Casby, the bold expanse of whose patriarchal countenance was so valuable to himself and so disap- pointing to everybody else. He seemed brimful of benevolence if only one could lay hold of it. It is through action that we become part of the setting around us and participate in the transaction of living. If we wish to develop into fully participating human beings we can do so by locating a social need and offering the help it is in our power to give. "According to one's power" was a favorite saying of Socrates, and it is a saying of great substance. Longfellow put it this way: "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." - Excerpt from Royal Bank News Letter It Happened So Fast! Watch your children on the beach! Be prepared for water accidents! Most of us read the warnings that the Canadian Red Cross publicizes each summer, but how few heed them? One mother didn't, as she writes in to us: "While wading in the ocean one summr, a swirl of wave caught my sturdy three-year-old off balance, toppled her face forward into the shallow water. Children are always falling, then they grope to their feet and let out a loud bellow. I had raised enough; I should know. But she didn't get up, just lay there for an endless moment. Guess the wind was knocked out of her temporarily. It was my sister who flashed by, heaved out the choking, coughing child, and shouted at me, "You're her mother. Why do you just stand there!" I didn't know. I hadn't realized death could be so quick, children so helpless in such a little current! What if I had stood and waited ... ! Today, she's an excellent swim- mer with two Red Cross swimming badges on her suit. But what if help had not been near then .... .?" Exactly. What if . . . ? The Canadian Red Cross can't urge you enough to keep an eye on children, all children, near the water. - Make sure they wear their PFD's at all times. - Discourage them from using inflatable toys in the water or ursuing such balls or toys from the each into the water. - Make sure someone is close by to help - the drowning swimmer could be yourself. - Swim only during daylight when a lifeguard is there. - Investigate any unfamiliar water' area before entering it. - Be alert - especially with children - they always do the unexpected. Durham County's Great Family Journa! 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I Dea M writ Mor thro it a wou gue lette not Mor the quoi I lor formn conf ings dum urin cert Th even M pens have beco As is do an com in B( ago, how being myse inter Tow curio ed m Jette know alwa have beco. pseu Letters to the .r Editor: I have not been certain of facts y original purpose in I have sought advice from ing was to answer Ms. others, yes, that includes our 'ris. Reading her letter infectious Councillor Lyall. ugh a second time I found I would also like to add a mish-mash. I thought I note to K.R. Barkley. It was ld telephone her, but I with great interest that i read ss she recognized her yourhletter, I was overjoyed by er for what it was, and did the discovery that someone give an address. Ms. else among the general public ris should try re-writing is interested enough to state hodgepodge using factual their opinion for the public tes. record. It often seems to me have never said a council- that there are too few of us. was "ignorant and unin- Have you had the opportunity ned,- maybe they get to read' Bowmanville Growth used (committee meet- Impact Study- by the U.M.A. that are conversations, group? ps that are manufact- Thank you, g plants) at times, but Dennis R. Sadler ainly not "ignorant". îen, Ms. Morris could not Dear Editor and Readers; i get my name correct. Ont. Hydro's meeting at The y "non-habit forming pro- Lions Centre June 8, 1976, by ity for being wrong?" If I numbers and people - repre- a tendency how does it sentation might have been me non-habit forming? termed a large success for far as how my "business 'the people' of the Newcastle - ing", what business? I am Area District. apprentice with a local Officialdom was represent- pany, I purchased a home ed by the Durham E. MPP Mr. owmanville three years Doug Moffatt, the Town by and became interested in Mayor Garnet Rickard, Coun- ali that tax money was cillor Lyall and Entwisle, g spent. I look upon Allin and Cowman. Many elf as a conscientously ratepayers from Bowmanville rested resident of the and alloutlying municipalities n of Newcastle. That were present. Durham Region sity bas at times prompt- Field Naturalist speakers had [e to write my opinions in their say. rs to the editor. To my Queries from our Durham wledge the facts have E. MPP Mr. Moffatt kept the ys been correct, and I quorum busy with answers for never felt it necessary to considerable time, the ans- me anonymous or use a wers all showing strong rea- donym. On occasion when son for NOT having The Ed'tori Proposed Nuclear Site. Councillor Lyall in his graphic terms described him- self as 'the devil's advocate' as far as Ont. Hydro's proposals were concerned. His words were more like those of an Angel of Light to most of the people at the meeting. Mayor Rickard's queries too, brought forth answers (Ont. Hydro were quite frank and truthful) plainly showing the risk and undesirability of having either the proposed site or a radioactive waste dump in our area. Councillor Cowman, bless her, came on strongly with thoughtful queries and def- inite statements - all con -- against. The president of TONRA, Mr. Ron Amyotte, read a brief for Ont. Hydro which must have been like manna to that company but an embarrass- ment for the ratepayers who were there in greater number than at any meetings we have held on the third Mondays of each.month except for one in Feb. when Energy Probe was with us. , Doubly embarrassing, since an environmental brief was read by Mrs. Lilley at a mini caucus and with the support of many ratepayers' letters and letters from Directors of the Assoc. These letters were handed in to the Oshawa Naturalist Club hoping that the association could be count- ed on as an environmentally interested citizen group! Report From Queens Park by DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P. Obviously the government of this province is not interest- ed in helping the farmer. A few weeks ago it copped out on the basic issue of preserving agricultural land. Now Agri- cultural Minister William Newman has brought down a Farm Income Stabilization Act which, in the words of one farm spokesman, "isn't worth the paper it's written on". With farmers rioting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa you'd think that the Tories in Ontario might have started to treat farm issues more ser- iously. But they haven't learn- ed a thing. Farming has become a hazardous occupation in this country. Bedevilled with a boom-bust economy, farmers have seen wholesale food prices fluctuate wildly while their production costs have steadily increased. Many larmers have gone broke. Many have been forced to take a second job so that they can sustain their families. Some 40 per cent of them have left the land altogether in the last decade. In response .to this acute distress, the Tories have produced an insultingly in- adequate piece of legislation, their Farm Income Stabiliza- tion Act. Built along the fines of the Liberal program in Ottawa, itself denounced as worthless, the Tory program is not what organized agri- culture in Ottawa has de- manded; nor is if what the farmers need. And certainly it is not what we in the NDP have been pressing for. First, a clear distinction must be made between farm income stabilization and farm income insurance, which has already been implemented in B.('. and Quebec, which is under consideration by two or three other provinces and which has been advocated in Ontario by the Federation of Agriculture, by the National Farmers Union - and by us. Income stabilization as operated by the Liberals in Ottawa and now proposed by the Tories in Ontario is only a "stop loss" program. It pro- poses to subsidize far m prices trom tne public tieasury whenever they drop below 90 per eent of the average of the last five years. 'Since farm costs - taxes, gasoline, oi, hydro, machinery, fertilizer, etc. - increase every year, prices averaged over the past five years are both irrelevant and inadequate. And to take only 90 per cent of those costs as the base on which to calculate this year's prices is to add insult to injury. (The injury is not alleviated much by the vague promise that this year's costs of production will be taken into account.) In short, farm income stabiliza- tion is designed to keep farmers from going broke altogether; but it is certainly înot going to keep them from forsaking the land. In contrast, farm income insurance is a program where- by provincial and federal governments enter info equal partnership with farmers to build an insurance fund. Farm prices would be negotiated each year by government and by the appropriate farm organization so that the costs of production are covered, plus a fair return on invest- ment, management and labour. When market prices drop below the negotiated price for any commodity, the difference will be made up to the farmer from the fund. Just as crop insurance covers loss of crops, so income insurance compensate for loss of income resulting from falling com- modity prices. Obviously, from this point forward, the sioppy inter- change of the words stabiliza- tion and insurance in refer- ence ho farin income should cease, for they are distinctly difterent concepts. The NDP opposes tarm income stabil- ization because it is a sop, a stop-loss ineasure .The NDP pioneered farm income insur- ance in British Columbia. It bas been duplicated in Que- bec. It is the program ad- vanced by organized agri- culture in Ontario. Farm income insurance promises, at long last, to establish agriculture on an economical- ly sound basis, which is why the NDP supoorts it. The limited scope of cover- age by farm income stabiliza- tion under this bill in Ontario should be noted as well. It will cover only 12-15 per cent of farm production, based on value. As Gordon Hill, Presi- dent of the OFA, has stated: "Preliminary calculations in- dicate that 87 per cent of Ontario farm products will not be eligible for support under the legislation, and that, to say the least, is highly discrimin- atory." To stabilize farm income the NDP believes that a three-fold program is needed: 1. A farm income insurance program. 2. Effective supply manage- ment programs so that adequate prices will not lead to undue food surpluses; and 3. Regular funding to assure systematic disposal of sur- pluses, at home, through school milk programs or provision of food to needy families; or abroad, to assist in international food aid and development programs in the Third World. It's about time that the long-term security of our farmers is assured. They may only make up 5 per cent of our population, but they serve the interests of everyone who eats. And I think it is safe to say that is everyone. 'l'he new Democratie Party will oppose the Tory farm bill. This gove'rnment has lost the will to govern effectively. It continues to put forward policies which are inadequate, contemptuous and defiant of the expr'essed needs of all of us. It will be interesting to see how many ratepayers turn up at the meeting on June 21, where old and new corres- pondence will be heard and new and old interest hashed for the year. Thanks to you Ont. Hydro for the opportunity you gave the district for in-put. You were patient, courteous, though perhaps a bit stunned at the general mood of definitve negativeness freely expressed. Your hospitality was good and you were fair in your comments to those who had the courage or impetuosity to speak. Many thanks, R. Lilley, Sect. of TONRA. M M M N N M M 25 Years Ago Thursday, May 31st, 1951 On Wednesday evening, the brothers and sisters of William Found gathered with their families at the Balmoral Hotel for a dinner, honoring his 70th birthday and also his 50th year as hutcher with C.M. Cawker. Local enumerators for Dar- lington, Cartwright, Manvers and Bowmanville started cen- sus taking to-day and included Helen Gardiner, Mary Nid- dery, Yvonne Osborne, Mrs. Malcolm Hamilton, Molly Kent, Dorcas Mutton, Mrs. Howard Malcolm, Elmer Cox, J. A. Johnston, Ken Roblin, W. R. Pickell, Newt. Armstrong, Sid Powers, Norm Mountjoy, Gord Moorcraft, Edgar Beer, Frank Pascoe and supervisor Ray Dilling. The Branch 178, Canadian Legion Pipe Band Drum band, wearing McKenzie Tartan made its first public appear- ance at the head of the Kinsmen Carnival Parade on Thursday evening. Members were Pipe Major Doug Bloor, pipers Glen Thertell, Ray, McNab, Bob Lockhart, Jack Stark,. Al Fletcher, Bob Dun- bar, Don Brooks, Ray Aber-, nethy, Arnie Hart, Dave Pollack, Art Brooks, Bill Colville, Harry Conners, Drummers G. Parkin, Jim Essex, Jim Martyn, Jim Taylor, Don Anderson, Andy Stark and Mel Hawley. Dr. Harold Ferguson and Dr. Howard Rundle spent a week fishing at Dr. V.H. Storey's Cottage on Lake Nipissing. The Bowmanville Kiwanis Club will soon drop its Wednesday morning break- fast meeting program for the summer months. President Doug Barber suggested cancelling the breakfast program at the Flying Dutchman Motor Inn on Wednesdays until the end of the summer. In the Dim and )stant Past 49 Vears Ago Thursday, June 16th, 1927 On Friday evening, in Trin- ity United Church, the large new pipe organ, manufactur- ed by the C. Franklin Legge Co. of Toronto and which was recently installed, was offici- ally put into service with a grand recital. Vocal soloists were Miss Margaret Allin, Miss Marion Pickard, and Mr. Melville Dale. Fire Chief William Edger has asked us to call the attention of autos being driven too close behind the fire truck, on its way to fires. Such a custom is handicapping the firemen in their efforts to arrive promptly at fires. Citizens therefore are request- ed to keep a safe distance behind. Following are resuits of Graduates of Bowmanville High School attending Univer- sity of Toronto. Honor Classics, 2nd year - Maitland Gould. Commerce and Finance - Stanford Symons, English and History - Marion Dickson, Orono, Math and Physics Stanley Osborne. Biology - Albert Allin - Hampton, Dentistry - Andy Somerville - Orono. Durham Regimental Brass Band will lead the parade in Bowmanville on Saturday, July 1st, celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Confeder- ation. The annual meeting of Newcastle Ladies' Bowling Club was held in the Council Chamber, Community Hall. After the club members present showed they were ir favor of the president's sue gestion, he said in place ofe them they would begin meet- ing in homes soon. The members also talked about the Junior Kiwanis program, Key Clubs, during the informal meeting on June 9th. end Spc : By Bil SmiIey This Age is Golden By Bill Smiley It seems, when one looks around, that the Great Revolution of the 1960's has petered out, as most revolutions do. And, as usually happens after a revolution, the pendulum is swinging toward con- servatism. The Savage Sixties, featuring a vicious war in Viet Nam, student uprisings, draft dodgers, the growth of strident feminism, and the blossoming of four-letter words in the mass media, have simmered down into the Scared Seventies, when inflation and unemployment are the bogey-men. Most obvious evidence of this is the race for president in the States. There's not a liberal in sight. It's like a game of musical chairs in which every participant is striving to be a little farther to the right than the guy who made the last speech. I'm not entirely unhappy about this swing of the pendulum. While revolutions often produce freedom, they also produce excesses, and that of the Sixties was no exception. It produced a violence, a callous- ness and a viciousness that was probably unparalleled in western civilization's history. Remember? The kids were on drugs. The parents were on the booze. Cops were called pigs. Language that would shock a sailor came out of the mouths of babes. It was fashionable to be filthy if you were young. Hard rock replaced anything resembling music to be listened to. Cults of various degrees of obscenity flourished. Muggings multiplied. Hijacking hit the head- lines. It was a nasty, nervous decade for society to grope through, and as a basically conservative person, I'm glad it's fading, even though it has left a fair bit of detritus as it ebbs. Not all of it was bad, of course. Many of the old shibolleths were swept away and replaced by something saner. The social, politi- cal and economic status of women took a giant step forward. There was a new honesty, as much of the stuff our parents used to sweep under the carpet was pulled out, looked at squarely, and found to be merely funny, not frightening. There was a new and healthy skepticism toward politicians, cul- minating in the not so incredible discovery that some were liars, some crooks, some both. Our institutes of higher learning got a good shake-up, and their traditional stuffiness swung toward something verging on license. In short, a lot of the phoniness of our society was exposed for what it was. A lot of rocks were turned over, and a lot of things crawled out from under them, and died in the hard, clear light. That's all to the good. Every revolution must crack some eggs to make an omelet. And every revolu- tion inflicts wounds, some of them savage. But society is the sum total of individuals. And just as an individu- al who has been mugged, knifed, raped or otherwise abused, must retire and tend his wounds, so must society. There must be a healing time. Perhaps the Scared Seventies is such a time. Certainly, there is a trend. Hard rock music, hoist on its own petard, is being replaced by country and bluegrass music. Trans- cendental meditation is replacing the acid trip. Most people are fed up with the pure pornography that has flourished. Even that scared cow, hockey, has turned people off, including aficionados, with the mindless, but contrived violence of its goon shows. Hijackers are harried and hunted down. Maybe, just maybe, we're in for a brief Golden Age, in which the arts will flourish, ripoffs will become a thing of the past, excellence will be restored as an aspiration of the young, and children will honor their parents. But don't hold your breath. Maybe, just maybe, movies will start having a plot again. And policemen will be pals, not pigs. And music will be enjoyable, not excruciating. And vandalism will vanish. But don't hold your breath. Maybe, just maybe, town en- gineers will go around holding hands and singing, "I think that I shall never see, A sewer lovely as a tree." But don't hold your breath. Maybe, just maybe, politiciarQ will start letting their left hand kn what their right hand is doing, and' remove both hands from the pockets of the taxpayer. But don't hold your breath. I'm a realist. I don't hold my breath. But I'm also an optimist. So, whatever it's worth, welcome to the new Golden Age. Kiwanis Meetings Informal for Summer