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Page 4, News, Wednesday, September 7 , 1988 = Editorial Page: The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Tel.: 807-825-3747. Second class mailing permit 0867. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Assn. and the Canadian Community Newspaper Assn. General Managet......Paul Marcon Editot.............-..-....Greg Huneault Admin. Asst..........Gayle Fournier Production Asst...Carmen Dinner Tel.: 825-3747 Single copies 40 cents. Subscription rates: $15 per year / $25 two years (local) and $21 per year (out of town). New school year is an education for all As the new school year begins, children are for the most part happily settling in to a new schedule and environment. Each school year brings with it new friends and challenges to which the students must adapt. But they are not the only ones who must readjust to a renewed sense of discipline and behaviour after the long summer holiday. Motorists and residents in general will have to sharpen some of the skills that may have been dulled during the summer. Drivers must begin exer- cising greater caution when driving in the area. Groups of children will once again be playfully chasing each other on the way to or from school. They will be distracted occasionally while crossing the street or highway. As the daylight hours become shorter, it might become more difficult to see them along the side of a street or road. It is the responsibility of all to ensure that tragedy is averted. Teach your children the rules of the road. Strictly enforce a designated route that the children will walk while attending school. Drivers must consciously exercise greater care when travelling the neighbourhood and the high- way. Although school guards provide a greater degree of control and safety, it might be wise.to drive with the assumption that anywhere along the highway is a designated school crossing. Often, for young children who haven't been taught properly, this is the case. Adults should also keep watch for anything sus- picious now that children will be walking the streets in greater numbers. Both parents and chil- dren can lear more about the local Neighbourhood Watch Program and become familiar with its pur- pose. If you would like more information, contact your local police department. Help make this school year a safe and productive one for all! oF N J 4 4 } \\ WSS SNS WALKING THE LINES WERE AN OLYMPIC SPORT WE'D BE PERENNIAL CHAMPIONS ! to It is time to start thinking about local municipal elections Local politicians are no doubt beginning to prepare for the municipal elections, which will be held in November. Both those officials who have decided to run again for office and possi- ble candidates have a challenging and exciting time ahead of them in terms of planning a piv- otal future for the area. Some say that the towns must change with the times if they are to survive and prosper. Candidates might be well advised to ask them- selves how they plan to chart this progressive direction. But more importantly, the voters must be the ones who take the lead in asking for direct answers. Politicians have to be accountable for their actions and decisions. 'Voters' have to ask themselves if this is the case with local reeves and councillors. Issues such as economic expansion and diversification, tourism development, school taxes, and area homes for the aged are just some of the con- cerns that ought to be dealt with before election day. Don't be intimidated to ask a candidate some serious questions. You deserve some seri- ous answers. Here's To Austrailian Manhood Let us pause for a moment's respectful silence on behalf of Australian Manhood. The second shoe has dropped. The first shoe was a dusty cowboy boot and it covered the foot of a character called Crocodile Dundee. You remember Crocodile...a lean and rangy chap with an easy going smile and a pocket knife big enough to shishkebab a killer whale on. Actor Paul Hogan portrayed the wily outbacker in two movies that in zcted hundreds of millions of dollars into the Australian economy and put the land down under on the map. Now everybody in the world knows what Australian men are like. They're cuddly, they're fearless, they ware hats festooned with crocodile teeth and the get the girl in the end. Nope. That's what I meant about the other shoe dropping. Psychologists, writers and other surveyors of the passing scene are now emerging from the woodwork to tell the world that Crocodile Dundee is a myth. "Australian males may think Lager or a flash burn on the themselves tough, wily and "barbie." worldly like Dundee," says Australian writer Berwyn Lewis, "but most are benignly adolescent...products of a country that has never suffered a> revolution, a civil war or a saturation bombing to really test its manhood." Whatever you think of yardsticks for masculinity the man has a point. Australian males are living dangerously over the mythological line. They / >. as <a But Australian men aren't the may see_ themselves barehanded jungle croc wrestlers, * but 8 out of ten Australians live safely under the street lights in #87 large cities clustered along the country's coastline. ; Most of them go home to to s. * ranch style bungalows on postage A r stamp lots in suburbs. They bring home paycheques from white collar soft-pinkie jobs in Bl ack sales related service industries. A majority of them couldn't tell a wild crocodile from John only ones who like to dress up Crosbie. The most dangeror.s their image. I had a couple of thing your average Aussie faces hours to kill in Cleveland one is a beer scrape from his Fosters time and the only movie house I were could find was showing Rambo (I forget what number, but it doesn't really matter). On the screen Rambo had just destroyed two regiments of crack enemy troops which prompted a. blood-curdling cheer from the throats of a dozen cinema patrons behind me. I turned fearfully around expecting to see a couple of rows of neolithic bikers in tattoos, torn T shirts and chains. What did I see? Geeks. Nerds. Skinny little > guys with pasty faces and pencil >, necks, receding hairlines and coke-bottle specs. These were the Americans that identifying with the superhuman muscle-popping Rambo persona up on the screen-- goofy, slope-shoulder misfits with sunken chests and pot bellies who'd come down with angina attacks if they trotted up a flight of stairs. Unathletic guys. Unagressive guys. Guys like... Well you and me I guess. Which brings it home to Canada. We Canucks have our mythological male too. he doesn't pack a broadsword-sized hunting knife like Dundee and he's not much for the state of the art machine guns like Rambo, but he's pretty good with the axe, as long as he faces nothing more hostile than a jackpine. Give him a birchbark canoe and a good stretch of water and he'll make that paddle sing. Ah yes the famous Canadian lumberjack. I confess I have done my bit to spread the myth. Last winter in Georgia over a mint julep or two I entertained some locals with stories of a typical Canadian lumberjack's life. I told them about our annual, bareback moose riding festivals and the polar bear wrestling contests. I believe I even sang a verse or two of "Rose Marie". Just got a card from them--they're coming up for a visit next month. They hope I can take them fishing "for some of those twelve foot muskies y'all told us about." Let's see now...a canoe is the one with two pointy ends, right?