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MAN FROM MARS No one of the unusual sights residents In this area see since the establishment of a large dragway In the area This Is a funny car and Its operator This package of pipes and plugs Is capable like Grandma s stew this column is composed of bits and pieces odds and ends picked up in the newspaper vineyards during the past few weeks A recent column on epitaphs on tomb stones here and in the old country drew a spirited response from one lady determined not to be outdone by the chisel I ere of another age wrote this doggerel for her husband intheevent she slipped away ahead of him a smiling mom in May When my wife she passed away Her faults were many Her virtues if any Are buned with her clay Despite tht intent hubby wasn t pressed and we expect on answer or rebuke from Stan by return mail Sign in window you don see what want you come to the right place It is hardly cricket for a scribbler with a beard to be discussing long hair since some people lump the two together as good material for the but I as interested in what the Christian Science Monitor had to The CSM is one of the top newspapers in the I S and they often hit at the core of an issue without provoking passion the Monitor borne newly minted college graduates male who wear their hair long arc experiencing getting good Jobs The young men are discovering that the style so fashionable on campus often produces negative reaction elsewhere Why should this be Of what im porta nee is a affectation The answers probably often escape tie very people who feel a quickening rage when they observe what is after all hair style Or is it only a hair style The truth is and we have the young people word for it that long hair is very often a of contempt for the values of conventional Americans What provokes a hostile reaction then is not the fact of long hair but the obvious desire to provoke a hostile reaction Nothing is so sure to arouse an as an overt attempt to do exactly that It s just not in human nature to welcome antagonism Or o hire it Everyone at some time gropes for the right word or the right phrase to suit a particular situation says the Winchester Press However there often a more profound behind the cliches that punctuate the language How about these It sin process in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless We will look into it the time the wheel makes a full turn we assume forgotten about it too A program Anv assignment that can t be completed by phom call Coordinator The guy who has a desk between two expediters To implement a program Hire more people and expand the office A Conference A place where con vcrsation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneliness of thought Once upon a time summer travel was for the very rich They went to Europe on a luxury liner ate eight times a day stayed at fashionable places on the continent dressed for dinner and all that Jan while the rot of in sweated it out The but still wealthy Hocked to the great lodges and summer hotels St Andrews by the Sea Manoir Jasper and Banff They were safe there from the and sub serviently served by secretly insolent bell boys and waitresses The moderately well todo had a cottage perhaps a day travel from home with a backhouse and icebox with real Ice in It coaloil lamps and a They lived quietly simply and went to bed with the whippoorwills The poor the working class picnicked the park attended ball games and watched parades In the evening they sat on the front porch murmuring gossip drinking lemonade and listening to the cries of their young playing runsheeprun or redlight in the velvet dusk Things have changed The rich now fly to the Greek Islands or Japan or Rome where they can live exactly as could at home but with Slavics of whatever nationality assuring them that they are still the very rich The rich have deserted the tig hotels and lodges most of which are on the verge of bankruptcy in desperation become a haven for con ventionsand middle class poor tippers The original inhabitants have fled to Mexico Scandinavia or the Cambbean where they can still escape the hoi polio i The moderately welltodo still in many cases But it is now two or three or more hours of maniacal driving They now have Indoor plumbing a refrigerator electric lights and everything from a power cruiser to a canoe Some are bereft because they receive only one TV channel They seldom get to bed before three am And the working class as they used to be called when they worked They hire a trailer and cover two thousand mites Or they rent a cottage and it for two weeks Or they get together and fly in to a fishing lodge once reserved for millionaires Editorial Page Answer somewhere in between We have been deluged with ink from those centres affected by the rotating strikes by postal workers and resultant closures by post office officials The Inconvenience they are causing never really hit home until last week when Acton post office was closed three days by the strike There was more than In convenience from the disruption In some cases inconvenience was compounded by hardship But we find It hard to un derstand the surprised outcry from people affected by the strike Of course they are Inconvenienced That is the Idea behind it We heard plenty of tirades against the postles We have also heard others who defended their position But there has been a noticeable lack of any middle ground which not surprisingly also seems to be the key In negotiations between the treasury board and the postal workers Both sides seem to be saying that unless they get what they want there II be no settlement Anyone familiar with labor negotiations realizes there Is a certain amount of Jockeying to be done before either side settles down to the real issues but the In of both sides In this dispute has meant a long delay And It Is the public which suffers The treasury board with the diplomacy of an ox about to be gored and despite ajl the prln clples of collective bargaining announced early that their offer was final All the labor groups applauded In righteous vein the postal unions replied that If that was the way the treasury board felt then there would be an Increase In strikes and interruptions until they adopted a more flexible attitude Labor applauded And the big unions promised the postal workers support Somewhere In between sits the public uncomprehending In Irritated by the length and the tone of the negotiations Now we ve got Industry mouthpiece of the Canadian Manufacturers Association calling for the abolition of the right to strike provisions of the Public Service Staff Relations Act which it claims Is at the root of the trouble Industry advocates replacing the right strike provisions with binding arbitration in the event of doing miles an hour on nltro methane fuel The operator jettisons a parachute from the rear to stop the vehicle Photo by Bill Stuckey Expedite To confound confusion with commotion To negotiate To seek a meeting of minds without knocking heads Communications problems They re being stubborn We re trying to communicate with you Be reasonable do it my way Reorientation Getting used to work The fellow you Just met Informed source The guy who told the fellow you just met Unimpeachable source The fellow who started the rumour originally Clarification To fill in the background with so many details that the foreground goes underground There are a lot of reasons for the change Everybody has a car Highways are better Holidays are longer and you even get vacation pay And of course air travel on chartered flights has made it possible for people with nothing to go almost anywhere The only people who are poor enough today not are the young people But that stop them With rucksack and they can cross the country on next to nothing I not knocking all this I think It s great But I m Just beginning to wonder where and why I missed the boat in this travel boom We Just got home from our big trip for the summer 110 miles to visit Grandad My sister and her husband are in England My brother and his wife send a card from a cruise on the Rhine A colleague with four children drops a card from Virginia A reader has just encircled the Great Lakes An old friend and wife are spending three weeks in Europe And I sit in the back yard with a sixmile trip to the beach as my Great Expectations There something wrong somewhere Each and every one of those people has been telling me how broke he Is for years However I mustn be bitter Just because none of those people can afford what they re doing doesn t mean I should be envious I was a bit burned by a card from my daughter She set off two weeks ago to hitch hike to Vancouver with a friend Her card says they are just about to leave Cape 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Thursday August 17 1950 Knox Presbyterian church was the scene of a pretty wedding when Bell daughter of Mr and Mrs Alexander became the bride of Bertram Harry Brewster son of Mr and Mrs H F Brewster Birch Hills Sask Bridal at ten dan Is were Miss Margaret Blow and Miss Helen best man was Kenneth Paul and ushers Dr Norman Amos and Dr Clifford Young They will make their home in Chllllwack C Ontario hydro workers have begun the installation of Acton s new substation at the corner of Hillcrest and Queen Sts this week It will augment the present station on WHIow St Work on the disposal plant Is progressing favorably under Jones and Van Gils Upper school results are announced for Mildred Armstrong Braida Brit ton Whitney Cook Alfred Lorraine Mull in and Jean Sinclair Seven streets and four being worked on are the only ones left now to receive sewerage installations Vandalism was carried to an extreme this week when it was thought some young lads were responsible for breaking and enter the plant of Ajax Engineering with no apparent motive Wm Coon the manager informs us a reward is offered Mr William Waller who has been an employee of Beardmore and Co for the past S3 years has resigned from his position sold his property on Crescent St and gone to live in Toronto The final laterals were Installed In the main business blocks this week Deputy reeve McLeod got the town grader on the Job friend from Toronto on the horse with her They tumbled off and Margaret fractured her right arm at the wrist The little lady Is bearing her mishap with admirable for A message comes from the west that grandma Coleman who is making a prolonged visit to the parsonage at New Brigdcn celebrated her Beth birthday by attending three appointments on the circuit with her son In law Rev Ralston Brown A She enjoyed the day greatly and is hale and hearty Many municipal councils have decided to fight the application for higher telephone rates 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Thursday September 1020 The music of the school bells rang out Joyously yesterday morning Miss Knapp of Gait assistant to Head Master is the only new member on the staff of nine Since early spring lodging have been supplied fey the management of the Acton Soldiers Home and these accommodations have been taxed to accommodate all applicants At first no meals were supplied Later at the earnest request of lodgers Sergt and Mrs Coles the housekeepers have been supplying break fast It has now been decided to supply regular meals which will be a great con to travellers The public rest room is growing in popularity Many fanner wives and families have however felt a reticence about accepting the accommodation provided so freely Now that a culinary department has been added this feeling may readily be overcome by bringing In oc a basket of apples of potatoes a print or two of butter or a dozen of eggs Margaret Brown daughter of Mr and Mrs R Brown was riding one of the quiet drivers of the farm and had a little Breton by ferry for Newfoundland Seems a rather circuitous route to Vancouver With no money Well they may all think they re really seeing the world but there are some pretty exotic things right around here For example we might slide out tonight to a little fresh vegetable roadside stand four miles out of town pick up some sweet com eat it and have a whizbang of an evening watching a rerun of Green Acres There not a one of them who can do that there are future public service debates Industry claims that set on the terms demanded by the postal unions would make a mockery of everything that has been done reduce Inflation and says with equal firmness that the first treasury board offer must be the last Support for the postal workers surprisingly enough comes from the National Farmers Union which says government strategy appears to be that of distracting attention from the real causes of Inflation and making scapegoats of farmers and working people As long as there Is no control over the profits of business and financial cor poratlons limitations of wages and salaries are unjust and Ineffective as a curb on Inflation The N U also contends satisfactory rates of pay are essential to maintenance of good service The most competent people are mobile and they tend to go where their skills earn the best pay Low rates Induce the best workers to leave and reduces quality of service Rates of pay for postal workers says the F U has not kept pace with the cost of livina There are two widely divergent points of view on the dispute but we think the real solution lies somewhere In between Perhaps by the time this Is read the new mediator has reached that plateau Off the cuff The only real Improvement In waste disposal In the past years was putting a motor Instead of a horse In front of the garbage truck Medical Post Swallows gathering on hydro and telephone wires Another sign of autumn 75 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday August 15 The rural Public and Separate Schools will open after vacation on Monday of August The schools In town and cities are called to open Monday August Negotiations are at 111 in progress for the establishment of an electric light system In Acton with good prospects of success Acton Cornet Band was never more liberal in the number of open open air free concerts given The committee of the Mechanics Institute presented a petition to the council for a grant of which was given them A farmer at Rldgetown was fined IS and costs on Tuesday for working on Sunday A caravan of Gypsies camped for several days at the corner of and Queen The clock train was over half an hour late on Tuesday being crowded with passengers for the North West The con tin gent was swelled here by eight or ten additional among whom were Messrs R G Brown W Lynd Alex McGregor John McLaughlin Duncan Campbell Alex and Thomas Gordon The voters list for this municipality has Just been Issued and the aggregate number of voters in both polling subdivisions is 390 greater than on any previous list St Alban Sunday school pic nicked In Warren s Grove yesterday afternoon They had a very enjoyable time Mb tmd Oft tm HnWv Co Oox rdw frm the OLD TIMERS AND EXECUTIVE of Beardmore and company Ltd are shown here Jura IS Standing to right are J Gibson Gibbons J t Marshall W Hall J Mellon Chapman Seated J Beeity J H Kent J Mcintosh A- J Dunn ESmtn J J Gould Photo was submitted to the Free Press by Mis Madeline Gibbons