hf i the st0uffvhu tjukjni thurj mr x 60 editorial how many how many more victims are going to be claimed by bloomingtons death corner before the road is im proved four lives have been anuffed out already at this intersec tion the latest fatality came last week when russell storry was fatally injured in a crash here it is several years now since whitchurch town ship council first considered improve ments at he corner the matter has been discussed a number of times and various proposals to widen and improve the visibility have been talked over however there has been no action taken and each year brings another fatality at this blind corner helping keep you may not be able to see the btouffville community swimming pool from main st but it can cer tainly be heard from a distance watching the little tots and those not so little splashing around in their swimming lessons one can envy their carefree time right now children are really engrossed in this carefree time so much so that they take little time to be careful or give thought to dangers which are very close to them during play hours the other day we observed a tot walk out onto a busy street fol- more while there are other blind corn ers in the area much greater danger lurks at this intersection because of the continuous heavy gravel truck traffic which travels this road in every one of the four fatal accidents to date a gravel truck has been in volved and one of the victims was a gravel truck driver few if any other corners in whitchurch have claimed as many victims and it is imperative that some effort be put forward at once to safeguard traffic at this point certainly the visibility should be im proved and some type of warning signal would safeguard the intersec tion even further them alive lowing his ball his back was turned to an oncoming vehicle quite un aware of the danger so close he picked the ball up and returned to his playground ke was so absorbed in his play that even then he did not notice the car patiently waiting for him to clear the street imagine one of those highway hawks ignoring all precautions and showing their driving ability tearing down the street we speak much of accidents when children get killed but seldom notice the incidents that keep them alive gambled and lost three lives were snuffed out at ringwood on saturday morning the fatal accident was one of the worst to occur in this area in many years two other members of the party are in critical condition the tribune has given consider able editorial space towards a move to have traffic signals installed at this busy intersection the matter has been dealt with at all levels of government but to date the installa tion has not been approved although we still contend that more adequate stop and go lights are needed especially to control the heavy flow of sunday night traffic we would suggest that a wrought iron fence would have been little preventative to a loss of life on satur day any driver who would gamble with human lives and race through a main thoroughfare at an estimated 70 miles per hour would require more than a red light signal to alter his plans on another occasion at 6 am on a saturday morning his path might have been clear this time it was blocked and two innocent people are dead the total toll could go as high as five what a price to pay stiffer sentences needed it is high time that magistrates sat up and took a closer look at the increased number of gang war in cidents that are continually blotting small towns villages and commun ities throughout this area there was a time when the verbal threats issued by these rampaging hoodlums carried little weight recently how ever these youths have resorted to more dangerous tactics their use of tire irons and chains has raised the ire of local citizenry these prac tices must be stamped out before haying on driving through the country during the haying season you seldom see a farmer and his helpers out in the field wielding a pitchfork not so many years ago the pitchfork was very much in evidence in haying time was when the hay had to be pitched onto the wagon pitched oft into the mow of the barn this entailed hard work and caused blis tered hands for those not used to handling a fork early in the century came the hay loader the device drawn behind the wagon it conveyed the hay up onto the load combined with the large hayfork in the barn by which someone is critically injured the skirmish in claremont on saturday night is only one such grudge fight in a lengthy list of similar incidents we feel that the police are hesi tant in acting against these roving mobs due to the rather weak sen tences that are meted out in the courts the pin money fines are an insult to the officers who make the arrests hitting these lads in the pocketbook would appear to be little deterrent to their highhanded ac tions a few days behind bars might leave a more lasting impression made easier the hay was pulled up into the mow this expedited the work but it was still a mighty tough job building the load of hay as it came up in long coils from the hay loader and later unloading it modern mechanism has further speeded up the job some hay now is chopped up green and blown into silos but many use balers rolled up in tight bales the hay can be left out until it is convenient to bring in and suffers little from rain or other climatic conditions it is still a tough job however tossing bales of hay onto the top of a load or lugging them around in the now respect power mower a power mower is hardly an efficient tool when it chops off your fingers and toes its skill at firing sticks stones and piec es of wire in all directions adds to its high rating on the danger list here are a lew suggestions from safety specialists with the ontario department of agri culture keep hands feet and loose clothing away from all moving parts of the mower wear good sturdy shoes if the blades should get to your feet therell be some protec tion at least never leave a mower running with no one to look after it know your machine be able to disengage the clutch at the least notice know the cutting path of the blades with respect to the mower housing never cut down a slope always sideways keep people children in par ticular out of the area to be mowed also keep people out of the range of the grass discharge opening they can be easy tar- sets for flying stones and other hard objects disconnect the spark plug wire before working around the blade such as in cleaning and sharpening mowers have been known to restart from the very slightest turn of thj blade if you have an electric mower remember this the blades are still whirling around mighty fast even after you have shut off the power give them time to slow down and be safe fit toufhniie frtbiitu established 18s a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffviue ont in canada 350 elsewhere 5450 c hl noun mfcw us thomas edfcs us mdcean untax o llo l x s iro 5s r 1 r i i r ft rl a 1 1 sjsgjag g ch84 f ti i v r r v ciuti t m m m 4 nvj it iv rti v ptlt j3 tf foi ii ii held over too long theres something mighty at tractive about the city in sum mer dont think i dont miss the leg show back home as the tourist gals waltz down the main drag all brown limbs bare midriffs red toenails sun- bleached hair and dark glasses so you never know whether or not theyre giving you the big eye but youre pretty sure they are not but thats what i mean for ten years i had that and id grown as callous as the door man at the follies bergcres down in the city i climb on a streetcar pull my shirt loose from me and view with interest some doll looking as though she had stepped out of a cold shower cotton frock clinging close spike heels upswept hair and dark glasses so you never know whether or not shes giv ing you the big eye but youre pretty sure shes not a few notes for the girls at home the office girls in the city who are usually right on top of fashions are wearing shorter skintight skirts not graceful but attractively dis turbing theres also a new coiffure in vogue let your hair grow longer then gather it all up in both hands pile it in un tidy heaps here and there on your head with plenty of wisps escaping and stick some pins and things in it there is a vague resemblance to the hair style of the masai warrior of africa but it is not so neat nor do the girls plaster it with cow dung to keep it in place as do the masai dont worry im not going to talk about girls all through the column after all ive been away from home before one weekend back in 51 i will add only one remark fortyish friends of the male sex we were born about 25 years too soon ive had a pretty good 8y bill smiley look at the crop of new teachers who will invade the high schools this september and some of them are enough to start a riot and i do not mean the men teachers e perhaps i shouldnt say it but some of these babes should be cigarette girls in nightclubs not teachers i can just see them writing a sentence on the black board jiggling like jelly while the big iunks in grade 11 blink hard to keep their eyeballs from rolling down their checks if these fulsome females expect to impart any information be yond the fact that they are well stacked they would be wise to put their hair in a bun and don hornrimmed specs flat heels and mother ilubbards these summer classes for teachers certainly produce a mixed bag in my classes there are indians negroes new can adians who are going to teach english and cant speak it yet a number of priests a pregnant lady a scattering of living dolls a smattering of young punks just out of college and two old mer another chap and myself big shock to me was to find that i had to take latin last time i studied it was 22 years ago and i cant say that i had quite mastered the language even then after that interlude the only latin i knew was mag na carta habeas corpus and in flagrante delicto none of these have come up in my latin class so far if i have to teach the stuft about all i can do is hurl myself on the tender mercy of the students and teenagers on the whole have a quality of mercy about as tender as that of the emperor nero the university is crawling with teachers in the summer they all look very serious but i have a lurking suspicion that most of the men at any rate as we say in latin are taking some sort of special course solely for the purpose of getting away from their fam ilies for a few weeks an ignoble thought perhaps but funda mentally sound theres nothing wrong with leaving a woman to cope alone with the house and children for a few weeks noth ing that a ocaolon in the booby- hatch cant cure its funny when i went home for my first weekend i thought my wife would be fascinated by my latin the dolls in the class my timetable which gives me afternoons off and all that stuff she wasnt even interested she just gave me a long hard look and started listing all the trou bles shed had during the week however i cheered her up while she was doing my laun dry late friday night i sat there cooling off with a long drink and recalled interesting little anecdotes about summer school to her as she filled the tubs soon she ceased com plaining altogether and stalked off to bed pausing only to ob serve in measured terms that shed lost five pounds in the last week it was different with the kids though they were delighted to see me and i got huge hugs and kisses they listened en thralled to my gay little tales of summer school for about four minutes before silently sliding out of the room into the outdoors oh well i suppose i cant ex pect them to realize what im going through here in the tor rid city while they sport around in the cool north country why some days its so hot i dont really enjoy my afternoon nap and i scarcely have the energy to walk the three blocks to the airconditioned movie in the evening however nuic dimittis handyman about the house summer is season to stop noise by gordon donaldson sitting one day in my base ment the only comfortable place to sit these days i dis covered a nice cool job for hot weather for a long time i have been meaning to do something about the noises in the heating sys tem as the system now stands there dusty and disused during its summer vacation this is ob viously the time to do it i have a forcedair system the furnace comes on heats up painfully giving out agonized creaks and rumbles then moans and shudders a bit and begins to clank steadily like a mississippi riverboat all this noise comes along the metal ducts and megaphones in to the bedrooms how to stop it hacksaw or snip through the main ducts a few feet away from the fur nace cut out strips about two inches wide and replace the cut out part with a flexible sleeve this can be made out of rub ber heavy canvas or thick plas tic screwed or rivetted onto the metal the sleeves should stop the worst noises trans mitted along the ducts from the furnace itself other creaks can be stopped if you can trace them by slipping rubber wedges under offending duct joints and sup ports other annoying noises occur from time to time in water sys tems the sound of an auto matic washer may be broadcast all over the house through its connecting pipes this can be stopped by cutting the pipes and clamping in pieces of hose pipe that hammering banging no segregation here parents only behoviour by fear is taboo if youre naughty the big policeman will get you be quiet or ill put you alone in a dark room and shut the door have you ever heard a mother talking like this in an effort to scat her child into being good threats are a poor way to en force discipline children should look on a policeman as a friend and should be helped to be un afraid of darkness parents should lessen not add to a childs fears fear may seem to work in the immediate situation but the parent who is constantly resort ing to fear is harming the youngsters development the goal of child training is a heal thy happy welladjusted useful citizen who can face his fears and accept responsibility for his own actions traced to childhood our mental hospitals and med ical clinics are filled to over flowing with fearful worried adults much of their lack of mental balance can be traced back to an insecure unhappy childhood fear was used too often to make them conform to certain standards of behaviour everyone from the earliest days experiences some fear a new baby exhibits fear of loud sharp noises and is fearful of falling children fear getting hurt sometimes they are fright ened of animals and of burglars they dread being alone being left in the dark strange sights startling events and strange noises also scare them extra ordinary natural events such as thunder and lightning some times frighten them children as well as adults suffer from bad dreams in a home where punishment is very harsh or where the mother is illtempered or the father drinks a child may live in constant fear the older child dreads failure parents sometimes place a child in an impossible situation by expect ing him to excell in sports or make high marks beyond hli ability what does fear do to a childs body sometimes it is accom panied by an excess of energy and a child makes a quick flight the shock may be so great from an overwhelming fear that the child is almost paralyzed an anxious child is one in poor mental health a certain amount of fear is necessary for selfpreservation a child should fear the dangers of traffic sufficiently to stop and look both ways before crossing a street parents should encour age a child to face any fear and make an intelligent reaction to danger cowardice contagious there is nothing more contag ious than cowardice the mo ther who is terrified by thunder storms is bound to affect her child she should help him un derstand what causes lightning and thunder if she can calm herself her own poise will re assure her child it is helpful if a parent helps a child to anticipate what might be a fcarprovoking situation such as a dentists visit the child who is prepared is less apt to be afraid parents should never deceive a child about the cause of fear neither should they shame him or silence him when he expresses his fear re pressing fear just drives it un derground into the subcon scious mind talking over a situation which frightens him with an adult helps a child to face his fear and understand it a child who is fearful of dogs may gra dually be encouraged to get to know and love one particular gentle dog unnecessary fear is a terrible handicap help your child to be free of useless fears and cultivate his courage to face necessary fears sound in the regular waterpipes is caused by inadequate air chambers either there arc not enough chambers or they have filled up with water and need to be bled off so much for noises made by things noises made by people are worse for years i have searched for a 100 percent effi cient way of insulating a base ment ceiling to keep out the thunder of tiny feet on the floor above acoustic tiles are fine but they are designed primarily to reduce the volume of noise in side a room rather than stop the racket from without rolls of foam and plastic soundab sorbent material are expensive and these again wont stop noise transmitted through the joists the best solution appears to be a floating celling of half- inch flbreboard mounted on one by two inch strips which are attached to the joists above by spring clips if the celling is then faced with acoustic tile or acoustic plaster life in the basement will be as peaceful as possible perfect peace just doesnt ex ist my neighbor is now learn ing the trumpet