3 THE KHA DECEMBER 1908 VOL NO Editorials Lord of the universe mighty creator Our adoration to thee we bring Waiting under the crowded Seeming to hear the sing Two thousand teem like a moment At the midnight hour drawt near Knowing the love that once came down It ever with ut ever near Round the world a are kneeling To partake the bread and wine Feeling that the Christ child whitpert In my name for you are mine layout ring the bellt of welcome Joyous carols sweet and clear Once again our souls are lifted By the thought The Christ is Bere Inglis CohiUe Mrs for many years wrote a column entitled the Common Round for The Era She celebrates her birthday early in the new year and her Christmas poem expresses our feelings at this time of year far better than any words we could write SUGAR By Bill Smiley Have a good Christmas Dont you dare feel hurt because you didnt get a Christmas card from us this year It wasnt the extra tuppence for stamps the only visible sign of the Just Soc iety It was a straight lack of time In December my wife was up to hear ears in essays with a preChristmas deadline Kim was up to hers in practising for her performers degree in piano And Ive been snowed under the usual assortment of antihero activities that every day every week make me less afraid of going to hell Its right here on earth Like an idiot I offered to type my wifes essays for her after shed written them Did you ever to type with three fingers and someone breathing hotly down your neck There was nothing sexy about that breathing She just wanted to make sure I didnt alter a word a comma or a quotation mark in that deathless prose She thinks she knows more about punctuation than I do Hilarious And I told her so About every 20 minutes Id snarl All right type the dam thing yourself and stomp off And shes snap How anybody who writes a column can type as badly as that is beyond me And so it went It took at least three times as long as it should have This was right in the midst of that annual debacle of exams an event that makes the honest teacher feel like handing in his resignation because after marking the kids papers he knows that he has taught nothing in the fall term Except bad After this ordeal its pleasant to look forward to holi days Time to relax read con template gird up ones loins and the long bitter winter Not this time There I typing wifes essays mark- trying to cheer which I pay the bank a month in perpetuity was the target Right in the middle of that cold snap and those blizzards it began to act like a hamstrung mule It wouldnt go at all expect when I didnt need it And when it did it not only limped but coughed Did you ever try to get a tow truck at midnight in a blizzard Have you gone out three mornings in a row after having your battery charged fully turn ed on the key and got a Rargh rargh rargh rargh cough rargh rarra Three licensed mechanics and at least ten amateurs told me it was the automatic choke the ignition the points the plugs my grandfathers transportation Nell we aint home yet I replied everything they told me except that rotten lit tle plastic thing you scrape the windows with And it still runs like a horse with the heaves So Im not dreaming of a white Christmas or a Yule log or wassail or jolly guests The only guests around our place this holi day season will be a bunch of My wife will be enter taining 19thcentury Herman philosopher Hegel who is duller than a dish of mashed peas My daughter will he consorting with a bundle of llohemans call ed licet and Ill be the one with the apron on doing the dishes or vacuuming Or I might even be the one on the bus headed for the airport and Acapulco with the joint account However no reason to be in the holiday season as Kim might put it in one of her songs Hugh will be home anil well Peter Gormans realistic model of the scene at the manger shines out in all its glory after dark at the entrance to the companys building on Eagle St and catches the eye of many visitors to New market entering the town via this route Photo Dear Editor I see by last weeks Era that those snowmobilers are up to their old tricks Theyre roaring across lawns and knocking over small trees and shrubs at the Senior Cit izens Housing Project near Fairy Ive been complaining for years about the same thing especially one man who wears a funny looking hat I would like to inform him that I too will prosecute if he once races across my lawn and ss my sidewalk Lucy Clarke scatters Dear Editor As the end of another year approaches we wish to take this opportunity of thanking you for your excellent public service cooperation during the past ye In its efforts to match i jobs the Department of and Immigration through its Can ada Manpower Centres is depend ent upon the goodwill of the com munications media Your cooperation has prompted our residents to become more aware of the availability of employment and of the various manpower programs designed to assist them Let me express our heart felt thanks for this generous co operation We look forward to a continued happy relationship over May we also at this parti cularly happy time of year wish you and yours a very Merry Christ mas and all the best for the com ing New Year Sincerely yours McCurdy Manager Canada Manpower THIS WEEK AND NEXT by Walt Wheat no longer King Canadas economic policy in a Cold War world can only be viewed as a classic paradox Canadians justifiably known the worldover as the great compromisers have been quite happy to be dominated by the wheat sales to Communist tries on the other Its not struck anyone as an incongruity that US capital was bolstering the industry of most provinces at the same time that Red roubles and ye the Canadian West Theres little likelihood that anything will be done in the foreseeable future to repatriate Canadian manufacturing industry from US ownership Walter Gor don bludgeoned himself into near politicial oblivion by championing economic nationalism The Gor dons come and go but the Am erican dollar remains planted firm on Canadas fair domain However there is evi dence that the Russian rouble and Red Chinese yen will play less significant roles in Canadas fu ture economy Its not thnt Cana dians will turn away the Red lucre that theyll no longer need high- priced Canadian wheat Ami that would mean empty pockets in many a farmers overalls The importance of Cana dian wheat sales to the Communist world was forcefully demonstrated with Red Chinas recent purchase of bushels at a cost of about 106 million A collective sigh of relief arose from the prairie farmers for the transaction came at a critical time Grain elevators and bins across the West were overflow ing with wheat Despite a two percent reduction in wheat acre- expected harvest of up Kim for her flunk in French have 900000 bushels represented a six Enough one might say on top of future per cent increase over last year the regular chores Oh no Add to this the greatest the Fates That bird is still too surplus in years and you can cocky Lets really sock it to him with all m heart Or understand whv the grain ele And they did My car for what left vators were bulging at the seams With the pileup came the of vast spoilage since a wet son had produced a grain that quired drying expensive hard spring wheat Canada which ranks inter mittently as the largest or sec ondlargest wheatexporting coun try in the world playing musical chair vear by year with the Unit ed Stales for the throne saw her wheat and flour exports dropping drastically Back in 1966 the De partment of Agriculture was jubi lantly predicting sales averaging million and million bushels per year until There was so much optimism thnt one could for give the praiiie farmers for believ ing that they could grow wheat in a flower pot and still harvest a Uncertainly as to future sales to Russia and China as long- term contracts expired called for a sober reappraisal of possible fu ture trends Pressing Russia to pur chase more wheat under a con tract that expires in August will lead to no longterm solutions The trend has been charted wheat sales to the Communist world plummet ed from million bushels in the 196566 crap year to million to 140 million bushels in To make matters worse two of Canadas traditionally best customers Britain and Japan are also buying less wheat Some experts are urg ing prairie farmers to diversify with livestock or to change from highpriced lowyield wheal to highyielding Mexican varieties such as ideal for feed national agricultural revenue but its been a cliche to say Wheat is King in our economy Unfortu nately the loss of longterm con tracts with communist countries cannot help but mean the reign of grain is plainly on the wane Most wheat farmers can do little but wait and wonder Crier By BILL GAMBLE heknow Yule people are predicting that Santa will he making the scene In a heli copter this year Add to this the fact that the very latest in unique Christmas gifts has been purchas ed by an acquaintance of mine for his wife a portable psychiatric- couch in laminated maple and cherry with a foam rubber base and a builtin tape recorder thai asks all kinds of personal ques tions and you will be convinced as I am that Christmas Isnt quite what it used to be Few sentimental tears I suspect were shed over the burn ing of the Holland Landing school- house last week Where is the red- blooded citizen whose childhood daydreams did not stray least once to the vision of his old seat of learning going up in smoke Most would have battled for the privilege of lighting the match An ironic turn of events indeed for some Holland Landing firemen dousing a childhood wish With complete abandon and total disregard for personal safety I flung the suggestion at Mayorelect Tom the other day that perhaps the most amiable solution to the Monday- Tuesday council meeting debate would be to amend the bylaw and make Wednesday closing day Mr Surgeoner disagreed explaining that the Retail Mer chants Association of Canada had done research and had come up with the decision that Monday was best for store closing Too bad we dont have a Newmarket Public Citizens Associ ation to do research on which would be the best evening to conduct the Towns business Up until a few weeks ago I thought Sharon Temple was Shirleys sister But after visiting the place for the first time I must doff my to the builders of 100 years ago A Temple that was built without nails and in the days before scotch tape certainly is a tribute the construction stalwarts of that era Come to think of it I cant visualize a single thing that Shirley Temple was built without Relics of my past Christ- mases include a few striped scar ves some stocking caps a lantern with a candle in it and a little tin for collecting dimes Anyone for a chorus or two of Good King W on Tuesday evening Good wishes are not all a bad ending for an old year and are by far the best beginning for new one So to all who read this column and even to those who dont 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