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4 6 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville. July 12, 198!) Site Cattafriatt Statesman Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by 62 „ James Publishing Company Limited King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor Donald Bishop Plant Mgr. Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. All layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. Subscription Rates Six Months --$11.00 One Year--$20.00 Foreign -- $60.00 per year Allhough every precaution will be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising In its columns on Ihe understanding lhat 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 H 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 occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. Men Can Eat Their Words When It Conies to Driving The elderly lady behind the wheel of a car is tne subject of more jokes than we'd care to remember. But, there are statistics to suggest that when it comes to driving skills, these middle-aged female motorists are actually leaving the rest of the driving population in a cloud of dust. According to a study conducted several several years ago, those who made the fewest errors were middle aged and older women. The largest number of driving errors were committed by "aggressive" "aggressive" males between the ages of 25 and 45. Men under 25 ranked second in driving mistakes. The study, which is quoted in a recent recent issue of the Ontario Safety League's "Update" magazine, goes on to note that men tend to think of themselves as better than average drivers and therefore they drive faster and more aggressively. Although the males may think of themselves as superior superior drivers, their skills . are not based on evidence produced by the study. Conversely, women have a more modest opinion.of their driving skills. The statistics from the same study indicated indicated that 80 per cent of women drivers rated themselves as average; only 20 per cent claimed that their driving skills were above average. (Fifty (Fifty four per cent of the men claimed that they were above average in driving driving skills.) The conclusion which might be drawn from this information is a straightforward one: If you're a male, you probably are not as good a driver as you think you are. And, if you're a female driver, you're probably more skilled than you suppose. But either category of motorist should, of course, use extra caution during the holiday season. The Safety Update quarterly notes that summer months can be particularly particularly hazardous because of the fact that large numbers of vacationing drivers are spending more hours on. the road and are travelling through unfamiliar territory. The best advice is still probably summed up in those all-encompassing words: "Be careful". "Vermont Morning" by David Stephen Rowland Winner of Lange Photo Lab prize at Visual Arts Centre Photography Contest and Show Cleaner Future Possible When our children look back and wonder what made the 1990's the decade decade the world chose to clean up the environment, environment, there will not be a simple answer. Many factors have brought us to the threshold of action on a number of frontsino single reason exists. It seems quite likely that the next decade will emerge from the pin-stripe conservatism of the 1980's to be the green decade. Quite possibly it will mark the rejuvenation of the planet for the next millennium. The clues surround us, ranging from the omnipresent omnipresent face of Loblaws' Dave Nichol pitching his latest green product to the expected focus on the environment at the upcoming G-7 meeting of western leaders in France. Environmental activists, previously seen as a shrill lot who worried too much, have reached new heights of respectability. respectability. Enough of their dire predictions predictions have begun to come true to make many of the rest of us take notice. notice. The political wing of the environmental environmental movement in Europe has made major gains in the recent European Community elections. In Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, an enormous dam project sits idle as the federal government studies what effect it will have on the environment. environment. American lawmakers now require require government offices to give preferential preferential treatment to paper suppliers toting the recycled stuff. This will amount to nearly four million tonnes of recycled paper being shuffled by government bureaucrats annually. To all of this our children will ask, yes, but why then? Why the 1990's? Pollution was a threat for many years before. Environmentalists protested for years. On the whole, the earth still was doing pretty well in 1990. So why then? They will discover, through research, research, that the catalyst for change was the business community and the increasing profitability of becoming green. In part, because of government censure, censure, but largely due to changing public public perception, business leaders are lacing up their green shoes with unprecedented unprecedented zeal. They appear eager to race into the land of compost and refills. refills. Loblaws is just one player in the business of the environment. In head offices of Canadian companies which historically have been this country's biggest threat to the environment, green is the hottest new concept. Inco, Alcan, Noranda, and Dow Chemical all are spending millions to" reduce' their operations' harmful effect on the environment, environment, ' Sustainable development is the watchword, not just at NDP headquarters headquarters or at green conferences in Scandinavia, Scandinavia, but in corporate boardrooms where the importance of natural resources resources finally is becoming obvious. The business community is full of environmental environmental converts who are pledging pledging to back up their new words with new actions. As increasing numbers of environ ment enemies walk down the Road to Damascus and return with a daffodil in hand and clean-up plans in mind, the environmentalists of past years squirm: yes, they admit, this is what we have wanted for decades, but 1) can we trust them? and 2) don't forget we have been involved with this for years. (The phrase "long-time environmentalist" environmentalist" has arisen suddenly with the intent of separating the wheat; from the chaff in the world of conservation conservation and recycling. The same phenomenon phenomenon is at work when someone stresses that he has been a Toronto Blue Jay fan since 1977, NOT just since they began winning.) It took social consciousness to reduce reduce the littering problem of the 1970's when pop cans , and wrappers covered much of North America. Smoking is on the decline because, at long last, the common sense of clean lungs is starting to hit home. Similarly, Similarly, the civilized world is anxious to take action on the environment. Suburbanites Suburbanites strut out to the curb with their blue recycle boxes, proud of the contribution they are making to the worldwide problem. We flock to purchase purchase bio-degradeable garbage bags, willing to pay a little more if necessary. necessary. This new pool of goodwill toward the environment is something into which many businesses are getting ready to dive. Splendid. Consumers , can help out by purchasing the new products and by tolerating the machine machine gun pitches of advertisers touting touting their latest environment-friendly widget. In the rush toward all that is green, society must learn the proper lessons about how we got here. It will not suffice suffice to blame tne 1980s, deregulation, free trade, and capitalism in general. Certainly, the unbridled free market tends to disregard the environment. However, it is the incentives of the free market which are moving many firms toward a greener, gentler decade. decade. We need to look back even further - into the 1960s. Myth teaches that the generation which brought us flower power was about as environment-friendly a bunch of people as there have been. But the hedonism of the period encouraged a dangerous individualism. The undercurrent undercurrent of acceptance for any kind of behaviour laid the groundwork, ironically, ironically, for the environmental selfishness selfishness which the world now is fighting to eradicate before the consequences become any more serious. With much work to do, the future looks a little brighter than it did even last year. The important first victoiy - public and political awareness - is nearly won. From awareness will come a willingness to act and to pay for action. action. From action will come gradual improvement. Although we must not ease up in the least, we can breathe a little more freely. We are on the road toward a cleaner future. Why is it, that with the onslaught of hot, humid humid weather, newspapers, newspapers, or the people run-, ning them, feel they have an obligation to their readers to print at least one picture of a woman wearing a bikini. The pictures customarily customarily are of one or two biki ni-clad women lazing around on a beach. Or, a photograph may consist of a vnwomany ^..dressed much the same way as. the Ones on the beach, strolling past men whose eyeballs have bulged three feet out of their sockets. Throughout the course of the summer, I and other other readers near the sprawling metropolis to the west, are guaranteed seeing a variation of that shot at least once. I have always wondered wondered why papers print photos such as these, since, as I see it, the pho- Writer Seeks Information From Local Decoy Owners Dear Editor: I have been collecting and researching decoys for over 13 years. As I am sure you know, decoys have become the rave of the 1980's. They are in just about every home decorating magazine, office, fireplace mantel, bookshelf, cottage, etc. I have been working with several of the museums in Canada, researching the history history of old decoys and have nadian decoys, as well as uj and coming" artists. It wi also display old hunting paraphernalia. paraphernalia. Our ultimate goal is to find the whereabouts whereabouts of all old wooden hunting hunting decoys, including goose, shorebiras, ducks, etc. We are asking you, as this area's media source, if you could dedicate just a small portion of your editorial section, section, to a fun and interestinj and informative story on oh helped identify thousands. I hunting decoys of Canada have a personal'collection of and your area. es, or cottages. If so, could you please add my name, address address and phone number at the end of the article for anyone who may have any questions about their decoys or need to know if their basket basket of dusty wood is worth a new car. I thank you for considering considering informing the public about this subject and I am sure the response will he ■eat. Please let me know if 300 decoys in my home, with that number increasing each year. Decoys have been dated dated back to as early as the late 1700's. Thousands of decoys decoys have been destroyed, burned, thrown out, or bought up by Americans many years ago before we Canadians realized that this historical little piece of carving carving was slipping out of our fingers. I am currently working with several people in Ottawa, Ottawa, with the purpose of opening a museum which will display a vast majority of the more well known Ca- Letter Writer Says Thanks Dear Mr. James: Thank you for your support support in publicizing the information information on the Post-Polio meeting held June 29,1989. It was a resounding success success -- the media advertising brought six new Post-Polio persons to the meeting. There were twenty-eight Post-Polio persons of a total of thirty-six persons I would like to express, on behalf of the Oshawa- Durham Post-Polio Association, Association, our gratitude for carrying carrying the message to the public. public. It is only with the cooperation of community- minded media that we are able to achieve our goal. The result of the meeting was the formation of a core committee who will convene in August to plan for the next general meeting, Yours Sincerely, Pat Wright, Community Services Manager, Ontario March of Dimes I am enclosing some information information I have put together together for you on old hunting decoys. decoys. As I am sure you will see, I am not a freelance writer but I am deeply interested interested in making people aware of how important and how valuable their old decoys decoys may be. I have purchased purchased a personal computer and I respond to each and every person who takes the time to write me. I also help everyone identify their ducks and try to put a value on them. Everyone is usually usually quite surprised to find out they are worth so much. Just one Canadian duck decoy decoy has sold for over $20,000 in 1988. If you are interested in a more detailed article on decoys, decoys, I can provide you with lots more interesting information information and I also have some high quality pictures. All free for your asking. I simply simply take pleasure in the response response we get from the articles articles and giving your readers any ana all information available that I have collected collected during over 13 years of research. We also would like to keep these birds in Cana da and in people's homes and on public dis; " No matter how dirty, dusty or dismal looking the decoy may be, it may very well be worth its weight in gold. Many people sell their decoys at yarn sales and auctions for a few dollars without ever realizing that these birds could be worth hundreds. Old decoys are treasure in the rough and I really hope you can find the can help you in any other way. Sincerely, Steve E. Lloyd, R.R. 3 Athens, Ontario, K0E 1B0 (613) 924-2774 tos could be labelled pornographic pornographic if they were found in a glossier format. format. I suppose because one can see these shots mixed with the comfortable and respectable grey matter of newsprint the photos are accepted. As far as I'm concerned, concerned, there is no news value to the photos and therefore no reason for printing them. Newspapers Newspapers should stop running them. The most obvious and the most important reason reason to eliminate the customary customary bikini shot is that it's offensive to many people. people. I'm not a prude and I don't think society should revert to traditional standards standards and cover women from the feet up to the neck in clothing. But, I do think that if people continue to see women, even during the dog days of summer, wearing minute clothing and doing nothing more noteworthy than walking past a group of men, they will become victims of a stereotype that I do not particularly appreciate. The image created by these pictures is not that women are capable, intelligent intelligent beings but that they are objects of amusement amusement for men. Newspapers, of all the establishments known on earth, should not contribute contribute to this type of imagemaking. imagemaking. Especially since half or more than half of a newspaper's readers are women. Women aren't buying newspapers to see what the female anatomy consists consists of. They already know. Women read newspapers newspapers to be informed. They want to know what our governments are doing. They want to know how much of their limited resources resources are going to be taken away in taxes. Curves and flesh pasted pasted on the front page do not tell them anything. While I think the underlying underlying point of printing a photograph like this, to show how hot the temperature temperature is, has some merit I know there are better, more effective ways of showing that. Trying to convey that message in a photographic photographic image can be difficult but it isn't impossible and it can be done without the obvious use of the generic generic bikini. Rather than trekking to the beach, photographers photographers can swoop down on the neighbourhood park. Snapshots of children drinking their fill from water fountains or parents parents relaxing under the shade of the trees are more pleasing and subtle than the strutting female. female. I know many readers will say they don't find the pictures offensive. Perhaps, compared to other photographs that have been taken, they are not. But, I don't want to see them in a newspaper. If men want to look at women women "barely" dressed, they can spend their money on some other form of entertainment. entertainment. Men have a choice and women should too.- A newspaper, that is supposed supposed to be the ultimate form of neutrality, should keep equality in mind. Proud as a Peacock „ ig his stult: this peacock was out to impress Bowmanville Zoo, Ilis worst enemy was a sudden gu their basements, boathous- any and all peahens in the vicinity recently at the of wind. space to inform the people of the treasures that may be in