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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, October 26, 1983 - opinton Don't tell me "It's JUST for kids!" The topic of discussion in this office, around the streets, and in my home has recently been centred around the coming of that once a year occasion known as Hallowe'en. J shouldn't complain though, for many years ago, during my youth, it was I who hounded my mother, at least two months prior to the big event ... with such questions as '"'What am I going to be this year?"... "Will you help me make a costume?" ... "Where are you going to drive me for treats?". Those were among a few. Now as a mother of an anxious child, I too must contend with the questions. I have been contending with them for many years and they started again about a month and a half ago. Right now, I don't particularly care whether Hallowe'en comes or not. I have lay awake nights trying to conjure up that 'special costume' that will be the talk of the streets for the next year. But to no avail. My fresh ideas have all withered. I threw all of my horded goodies away, that would have been appropriate for costume making, when I moved down to the north shore. I don't intend to rip apart valuable junk (at her suggestion) just for one night of festivities. One man's junk is another man's treasures, so they say! And I intend to keep mine intact ... in one piece ... it's mine! So far, my daughter has envisioned herself to be a witch ... a bunny rabbit ... something out of the next century ... and the list goes on. Right at this moment, I would dearly love to throw (not literally throw) some paints on her face and tell everyone that her mother can't afford to dress her properly. (She knows that line by heart!) Of course I can always try to talk her into wearing the same costume that she wore last year. After all, we have changed towns and nobody will know. You guessed it .. she wants no part of that. It has to be new. It has to be different. What she doesn't realize is the fact that she doesn't have a typical mother. . You know the type that I'm talking about. The mother who lays awake nights (months ahead of the event) trying to dream up the perfect costume for her child. The type of mother who never tosses anything into the garbage can, until she rips zippers, clips buttons and removes all the sequins and lace. The type of mother who never throws away any junk until she takes inventory of the junk she's already accumulated. The type of mother who carefully arranges Hallowe'en parties for her child (and her child's twenty friends) ... complete with sandwiches shaped as goblins, ghosts and witches. You know the type of mother I'm talking about! Come on... sure you do! She's the same person who carefully plans all her family's meals one month in advance - the one who invites friends over for dinner and tacks the menu on the fridge so that she can follow every step - the type of mother who has all her Christmas shopping done ... wrapped ... and posted at least by the end of October. Now you know who I'm talking about. She's everything that I'm not ... nor ever will be! She's talented, innova- tive, artistic, creative. But most of all SHE'S ORGANIZED!!! And poor me ... I'm none of the above! Have a Happy Hallowe'en folks. Arthur Black DEADLINE: Friday NOON Subscription rates: $10.00 per annum (local); $14.00 per annum (out-of-town). Second Class Mail Registration No. 0867. The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. EDITOR AND MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER RECEPTIONIST PRODUCTION MANAGER tag SE ee Karen E. Park ais See Diane Matson Ee i eee et. . a Oe nk a Sharon Mark eke SpE ore Mary Melo ca ancho = "'Controversy over the Bible" by REV. JIM JOHNSON Is the Bible the word of God or does it just contain the word of God? Perhaps no other controversy has rocked the theological world, than the debate over bibles. The Bible claims its own infallibility, for we read in I Timothy 3:16 that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."' In If Peter 1:21, "For the prophesy came not in old time by the will of men: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." We find from the aforementioned verses that it was God who was the instrument that moved the writer to write. The first Bible translated from the Greek and Hebrew that received the greatest readership and which remains the most popular today, is the Authorized King James Version of 1611. Not until 1881, 271 years later was another translation brought into existence. This was not a true translation, because it was not taken from the Textus Receptus which was composed of basic Greek manuscripts from which the King James version was made. The KJV was changed in 5337 places and so the revision of 1881 was constructed on a different foundation. The controversy over the Bible will continue to be a major dividing point -- in Christianity. I contend for the KJV and its beautiful poetic language. That which is new is not necessarily the best. A paraphrase of I Peter 5:8, could read "Be sober, be vigilant, because your enemy the devil, as a vicious scholar walketh about seeking whom he may deceive."' Rev. Jim Johnson Grace Baptist Church The ancient art of whistling Got a call from a reader pursed his lips and started whist- recently asking me if I'd like to know how it feels to be treated like a raving lunatic. Well, I get a lot of weird calls, but this one sounded off-er-the- wallish than usual. I said I'd risk _ it as long as it didn't involve ingesting drugs, signing docu- ments or being forced to watch Question Period in a locked room. "Much easier than that" said. the voice over the phone. "All you have to do is whistle in public."' The caller said he'd been 'downtown riding his bicycle, in- nocently enough, on one of the last nice days of the Fall. Some- thing about the warm sun, the blue sky, the wind on his face -- made him feel bubbling-over good. So he took a deep. breath, ling out loud. Suddenly he realized that pedestrians on the sidewalks weren't strolling anymore. They'd stopped in their tracks. :They were staring at him -- the whistler -- as if he'd just pulled- off the most outlandish stunt in the world. "I felt like a freak" said the voice on the phone. "I don't think that people are used to hearing whistlers anymore." I hope he's wrong ... but when I started to think about it, I realized it had been quite a while since I'd puckered-up and let fly in public. I wonder why? When I was a kid, everybody whistled. Whistled for _our dogs, whistled for our friends. Whistled just for the fun of it. Except on ships, The one place you didn't whistle was on a ship. Once, as a teenage deck cadet on an oil tanker, I almost got 'thrown over the side by a burly Second Mate. My offence? Whist- ling a few bars of "Sunny Side of 'the Street.*' There's an ancient supersti- tion among mariners about whist- ling at sea -- something about imitating the wind and inviting a Force 9 gale. All I know for sure is: you don't whistle when you go to sea. Or on land, if my telephone caller is right. Pity. Whistling is one of the few, simple, unadulterated plea- sures we've got left. No union -dues, no government taxes or regulations, and no expensive equipment to buy. Whistling's not entirely dead though. It's still alive and well in Carson City, Nevada. Folks down there recently held their Annual 'International Whistle-Off. Thirty world-class whistlers competed for the title of World's Best Whistler. This year the honour went to a 44-year-old firefighter from Mel- bourne, Australia, by the name of Ralph Weitering. Ralph whistled his way past the competition with an outstanding rendition of the theme from The Godfather. He 'also won first prize in Contem- 'porary Competition and second in classical music. So I guess the ancient art of whistling is thriving not only in Carson City, Nevada, but also in a 'certain Melbourne Fire Hall, .where Ralph Weitering practices : between three-alarms. ' ll leave you with one other morsel of Whistling Trivia that might make you think twice on your next walk past the Flight Insurance Machine at an airport. Last year, aviation statisticians completed a study of more than 260 voice-recorder tapes which had been removed from airplanes involved in minor and major accidents since 1966. i Guess what more than 80 per 'cent of the pilots had been doing during the last half-hour of their flights? Yup. Whistling. Maybe that superstitious Sec- ond Mate was on to something.