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@rono mttUf A Dull Affair The All Candidates Night sponsored by the Northumberland and Newcastle Public Education Network in Courtice High School ort Monday Monday night turned out to be a dull affair. Where was the flint and brimstone of goneby years. Part of the problem may well come from the fact that there are very few differences in party policy between the three major parties other than that in free trade and public versus private car insurance. Free trade on Tuesday night only received a scant mention and as to car insurance party policy was stated with no real debate. The format of the meeting did not allow for debate. The real purpose of the meeting as outlined by the local Network chapter was to encourge a healthy debate on the future of Ontario education. Again this was stymied by the format of the meeting and that it was the Network that provided'the questions to be asked the three local candidates. The general audience was not given the opportunity to present questions at this time. The candidates were given but a minute to answer. Such a system through the use of written questions makes for a dull and plodding event. •> The Network questions pertained solely to the need for improved provincial funding and the protection of their tax base. The information provided by the Network, organization was not up for question from the audience and possibly just as well as some would not have withstood close scrutiny. We would also have to beleive that some charts were suspect in their use. The position of the Network organization can be understood but provincial policy is not all the problem with education, its shared between between the province, the trustees, the teacher.s, the parents and the general public. We give some of the political candidates credit in mentioning that the trustees must accept their responsibilities. Also some of the comparisons came up for question as being somewhat unrealistic. The latter part of the meeting was given to written questions from the floor dealing with aspects other than education. Through this part of the meeting it was noted through answers from the candidates that there is no bottomless pit from which funds arise and that there are other aspects in the state of the province that must be maintained and they equally take funding. It really is a system in balance and even education depends on a reliable road and transportation transportation system, it relies on a sound provincial economic base, adequate and affordable housing, and the list goes on. The structure of the night was dull. There's more action at Town council. Another Frame In Self-Destruction? Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's administration appears to be bent on'self-destruction and the Free Trade issue could well be the next frame to appear. Of recent times one would consider the la,st minute Meech Lake Accord as unsettling for the and presently the handling of the refugee problem which should have been a breeze especially with the general public in support of tightening the rèins. Possibly we can add to this the Drug Patent bill which will hit the public with higher costs and as well the move by the United States to cripple the export of Potash from Canada. Time is short in which to reach a settlement on Free Trade especially if the concerns of Canadians are to be considered. In fact it is impossible with the few weeks left. The administration seems to enjoy living on the edge. Cureatz, Sam Sponsored by Durham fcasf PC Association KendalNews Your Father knoweth that ye have „ need of all these things. Luke 12:30 Remember that God loves you And cares for you each day; Remember that He guards you And guides you on your way. But most of all remember While stars shine up above, No power can ever pluck you From the circle of his love! Jon Gilbert On Sunday morning the choir sang a medley, which included the chorus of "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" We were pleased to have a visitor, Mrs. Mary Thompson, of Newcastle, worshipping worshipping with us. Rev. B. Ransom told us that 29 children attended the Vacation Bible Bible School at Newtonville last week which was an increase. At Kendal it was 15 which was also up over last year. The scripture reading was Exodus 17:1-7 Romans 11:33-36 and Matthew Matthew 16:13-20. In the minister's prayer he 1 remembered specially the Van Dyke family, of Newcastle. One of the announcements was: "That the United Church Women would meet at the home of Mrs. Ron Frank on Sept. 2nd. Wednesday Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The special speaker will be Rev. Norman Norman MacKenzie. This will be an open meeting. We would be pleased to have visitors from the other churches. churches. Men are also welcome. This will be followed by a Pot-luck supper supper on the lawn (weather permitting). permitting). The terrific wind on Saturday broke down my beautiful dahlias. It was fortunate the Newcastle Flower Show was on Thursday. It is unusual to have such winds in August. We expect them at the time of the September Equinox. (Equinoctial gales). Mrs. Margaretta Stevens accompanied accompanied by her daughter Dorothy has spent the past week visiting with • friends in Manitoba. Mrs. Wilma Martinell and her daughter Connie and Mrs. A. Cathcart were guests at the 90th Birthday Party of Mr. Harvey Aiken. This was held in "Franklin House" Bethany, on August 20th: His sister Mrs. Ethel Belch who is 92 years young shared the honours with him. However his oldest sister Mrs. G. Carpenter of Gananoque was unable to journey that distance to be with him. When Harvey was a baby his mother (Martha Cathcart) died, in Manitoba. His father Tom Aiken decided in December that his best plan would be to take the children to Ontario. He said he dreaded that three-day trip on the train with an infant and two little girls but when the mothers 'on the train heard what had happened, happened, "they just took over." He brought Harvey to his Grandmother Grandmother Cathcart who lived north of Kendal. He took the two girls to their Grandmother Aiken at Elizabeth ville. When his sister became a teacher, she took the two little girls back to Manitoba, kept house for her brother, and taught school there. Harvey was a very delicate baby. When he was five his Grandmother Cathcart took him to Manitoba to his father. At Christmas 1909 his father moved the family back to Millbrook, Ontario where Harvey farmed till retirement. Do small children benefit from family worship? One set of parents wondered'if their two-year-olcj was hearing anything at all. Their doubts were quieted though when the minister was reading thfc parable of the wheat and the tares. The Bible Bible version began, "There was once a farmer who haâ a farm" to which their little tad quickly responded "E-l-E-I-O". Take your fingers and remove the earth from around your onion bulbs, give them a chance tp grow big: ; . . Remember those harvest excursions? (Continued) By Frank Croft A Fiddler and His Soapbox. ....from 1921 on four R.C.M.P. constables were detailed to each train. The mounties had been needed. needed. Until they came, the destruction of railway property and private pro- ; petty near the right of way was often .on a scale reminiscent of a riot. It included every act of violence the hooligan element could devise, from tying a live cow to the rear of the train at one whistle stop and heaving what remained of the carcass into the telegrapher's office at the next stop, to raiding shops and, restaurants removing everything eatable and breaking everything breakable. At one store in northeastern Ontario Ontario run by two blind brothers, the harvesters one year during the First World War not only cleaned off the shelves like a plague of locusts and ' smashed the place but manhandled the blind men. One year when the ravagers were nettled by a shopkeeper who tried to protect his goods, they carried him back to the train and shoved him off, at the next stop more than 100 miles up the line. In 1919 one of the Maritime trains arrived in Quebec with every window in 16 coaches*'smashed. There had been no reason except pure hellishness. The harvesters happily dubbed their train thé Fresh Air Special and were taken on to Winnipeg that way. The only rambunctiçusness I recall in 1924 was at Fort William. A man came on thfe, station platform platform and mounted a soap box. He tucked a violin under his chin and began to play. When an audience had gathered he produced a box of safety razors and went into his sales pitch. He was nicely Into it when a harvester grabbed the violin and brought it crashing down on the hawker's shoulder. In a flash he was tearing it. through the station with about 300 men after him. It lookçd like a mob scene from a Cecil B. de Mille movie. Afraid to be led,too far from the train the pursuers gave it up after a block or two. ' • In the twenties a harvest excursion excursion ticket in eastern Canada to Winnipeg cost $15. At Winnipeg the harvesters bought another ticket to his prairie destination for a half- . cent a mile. Returning if was the same rate from the farm to Winnipeg Winnipeg and $20 from there home. A coupon was attached to the original $15 ticket. This coupon Was presented when the prairie ticket was bought in' Winnipeg and presented again at the end of the harvest (signed by the wheat grower the man had worked for) when the ticket for home was bought. A return ticket could be bought only if at least 30 days and not more than 90 days had elapsed. The excursion rates varied little from 1891 to the end and were usually about one third the first-clas» rate. As many as 40,000 harvesters would pass through Winnipeg in two to three weeks. It was something like an invasion by Cox's army with a boilermakers' picnic thrown in so it was necessary to' keep things, moving. To sell the half-cent-a-mile tickets both the C.P.R. and C.N.R. called in all Manitoba and western Ontario agents they could spare and put them in temporary wooden ticket sheds near the main station. The sheds looked like a long row of pari-mutual willows. It was common common for an agent to sell tickets for 24 hours straight with meals brought to him. There are still half a dozen men witlj the C.P.R. who claim to have sole) excursion tickets for 36 hours without relief. Note: Colonel Gaimie of Grono was one man who sold these tickets. He said they just dropped the bills in a large box at their feet. There- were similar though modified scenes at Calgary and Edmonton Edmonton where harvesters from B.C. were buying their half-centers. Often when men from B.C. and the east met on the same threshing gang the more footloose would exchange return coupons sti that the easterner could go on to the Pacific when the harvest was over and the man from Vancouver would go east. After the 1925 harvest the second and last year I made the trip, a Vancouver man got on our train at Go van, Saskatchewan. He was to meet a Montrealer in Regina. They had swapped coupons tjie year before and arranged to return for the 1925 harvest and swap again so that each could get back home. St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Sunday Service and Church School 9:30 a.m. ORONO 1/ PASTORAL CHARGE MORNING WORSHIP Month of August Newcastle United Church 10:30 a.m. MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP Aug.26 Wayne & Jocelyn Lywak Sept . 2 Grant & Carol Yeo 983-93% Corn Roast ' * GOSPEL SING . Orono Fair Sept. 13 Sunday 12:30 f>.m: