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Of Facts and Fantasy by Reta M. Berrill Rememberings In a recent issue of the. Toronto Star their columnist Gary Lautens came up with a very amusing bit of yesteryear. Hence our inspiration. Now, we know of nothing that so quickly places us in our age group as our (remembers) and perhaps ours will be far from funny. But regardless, we'll paraphrase a few of his and Venture further with "Do you remember?" Remember when radio was just a vision in a telephones and motorcars, aiid Old Dobbin and Shank's Pony were for real? ' Remember when kids walked miles to school and got an education -- where one teacher taught all eight grades? And the recreation of those same kids was a share of household or farm chores before and after "classes? Remember when gasoline was not a daily need, nor fuel oil which hadn't been heard of in that capacity, but kerosene was? Remember when -- if the house was not cold in the morning you had reason to feel good all day? Because the kitchen water-pail was not frozen over, and maybe that hunk of elm-wood did the trick. Remember when we considered the behaviour of entertainment people their business? Our immediate world kept us occupied, physically and mentally. Remember when certain subjects were taboo as conversation trivia. Men and women didn't vie with each other for the best off-color jokes. Women didn't swear, smoke or drink hard liquor. Or dream of being liberated? In fact, to acquire a brand new name prefaced with an authentic "Mrs." was every girl's real goal. And she wore it proudly. Remember when parents took their children to church on Sunday and wouldn't desecrate the day by doing the laundry or cutting grass? Remember Christmas creeping nearer and nearer with no long lists of 'I want"? Santa Claus or not, with luck there'd be the yearly orange, a few hard candies and perhaps a pair of hand-knitted mitts, or, J PE other article of needed clothing. ~ h Remember when you could tell the boys fronYthe girls? One wore pants the other dresses. And their hair style differed? Remember when women didn't wear their hair-curlers to the food market? Indeed, they were even hidden from her family -- tucked neatly under a frivolous little cap. And any attempt to improve on Mother Nature was a personal affair. ot RATS ps rid ENE IS would have been called Necessity not Fashion. And the same for patches and frayed cuffs. Remémber when it took two arms to carry less than $10 worth of groceries? And your mother saying of the Sunday-roast after a near-dozen had eaten-- "That meat cost me a whole dollar!" Remember when the great invention of indoor plumbing hadn't yet come to suburbia? Remember how its arrival with cold water on tap, spelled, plush-living? And twas later when electricity found its way along concession lines bringing push-button lights and continuous hot water, that we knew we'd reached the pinnacle. Remember when there was no income tax, baby bonus or old-age pensions? And your name wasn't filed in a slot somewhere with a number called Social Insurance? Remember when you thought you'd be on Easy Street if you could make 100 bucks a month? Well Ladies and Gentlemen, compared to that hourly rate of less than 40 cents, you would have been RELIABLE PLUMBING & HEATING far-away sometime? When only 'your rich friends had! ' Also, to be Barefoot in the Park or any other place "Can you give me a hand with this?" pushing the door open backwards because in one hand she holds a basket, heavy with tomatoes, and with her other arm cradles a large bag full of them. Eva S. relieves her of the bag and sets it .on the kitchen table without giving up the support of the crutch she has used since her leg was amputated. "Jim and 1 got to the market yesterday. We were lucky - these weren't-perfect tomatoes - so I've even got some change for you. I've brought over three canning recipes. You could try the chili sauce - or the tomato marmalade - or just can them plain. I've got a collec- tion of jars in the car." Eva. reads the recipes carefully. "The chili would be great," she says, "but I think the kids would eat more of the tomato marma- lade. They'd get lots of Vitamin C in their breakfast. It's so great spooned on your toast." Are these just neighbours sharing a project? One has a husband and a car to help with marketing. The other is a woman alone with her three children, no car and little money. One is active and healthy - the other is recovering from an opera- tion for cancer. They are friends but their relationship began as volunteer case aide and client. They met through the Children's Aid Society. Doris is one of an increas- ing number of - volunteers who perform services for clients which a CAS social worker simply cannot. make time for but which can be as crucial to the well-being of a family as any amount of counselling can be. In some Societies Doris would be called a case-aide; in others a para-professio- nal; in some, a friendly visitor. A recent suvey of the 50 Children's Aid Societies in Ontario showed that 40 make use of one or more groups of volunteers, that 36 Societies havea corp organi- zed by the CAS. Well over ate their time and services to the clients of Children's Aid Societies. They outnumber staff by three-to-one. In many, such volunteers supply or maintain material things such as clothing, toys, bedding and furniture. How- ever, an equal number of volunteers are directly involved with' the children and families served By the CAS. They act as teaching homemakers, baby sitters, chauffeurs, tutors for child- REPAIRS e ALTERATIONS e NEW WORK ren, big brothers, big sisters, camp counsellors, clinic assistants, nursery teachers "Service is our business" Bert Faber 985-2012 Electric Heating General SERVICE CALLS - FREE Call 985-7679 ELECTRICAL ® PLUMBING CARPENTRY RON RANKIN and SONS and visitors. They take families for outings, children to theatres and picnics, help motner.. w plan menus, take boys camping or fishing, Pumps ESTIMATES Doris M. is. 4,000 people in Ontario don- - operate enrichment programs for pre-schoolers and give leadership to client groups. They perform many of the functions which were once those of the vanishing extended family. Because of them house-bound mothers and city-pent families can escape to the country or enjoy some stimulation in the city. Societies with developed programs often give orienta- tion courses to new volun- teers to impress on them the need for confidentiality, empathy and dependability. However, in the final evaluation, their success depends on client acceptance of them in their lives. The A meeting of the Oshawa Presbyterial United Church Women Executive was held at Ebenezer United Church on Monday, Nov. 26, 1973. Mrs. Carl Down, Courtice, chaired the meeting. Moved by Mrs. A.P. Dick- son, Oshawa, seconded by Mrs. Robt. Sheffield, Oshawa, that the Presby- terial U.C.W. Executive support the California Grape and Lettuce Boycott. That all United Church Women be urged to refrain from buyng grapes and. lettuce and ask, their friends and relatives to joing the boycott. TE Living conditions for California farm workers are very low. Men, women and children working in the fields with no toilet facilities or source of water. Whole fami- lies are working 12 - 14 hrs. a day, with no rest or meal periods, to earn an average annual family income of $2,700.-Children are unable to attend school full time, because their wages are needed for the family's live- response has beer. encouraging. The new unmarried mother, the deserted wife, the handicapped father, the child in a treatment centre, have found new confidence to re-enter the community when the CAS volunteer has shown up to take a sincere interest in them as people. A significant develop- ment in voluntarism in the CAS has been the encouragement of clientg to form themselves into groups who will volunteer to help each other. In some public housing developments in Ontario these clients man their own clothing or food co-op: act as receptionist in support lihood. Planes spray the crops with pesticides while workers are in the fields - lowering the mortality rate. A boycott can be effective. As a result of the three year contracts signed between the growers and farm workers in 1970 living conditions were NOW ISTHE TIME TO ORDER YOUR WINTER FUEL - Volunteering is a two-way street the family counselling office; help other clients with budget problems. If "happy families make better communities' it is also true that an involved and caring community can help to make families happy. If you are interested in participating in a volunteer programme, call your local Children's . Aid Society. For the County of Ontario or in the near future the New. Region of Durham, your office is in Oshawa, 723-5211. For local call 985-2307 Mon. - Fri. 9-5, or write directly to Family & Children Services, Box 321, Midtown Mall, Oshawa. boycott beginning to rise for the farm workers - those con- tracts were signed after a lengthy boycott. All Ontario crop grapes have been sold. This issue is supported by the Canadian .Church Council. 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