PAGE SEVEN Better left unsaid Journalists are fearless critters. Yet there are some topies that even ageless, veteran scribes dare not tackle. "What would that be? you ask," impatiently. î «What, what?" But no this topie is so, sensitive that mention of it might unbalance marital sensibilities. Some matters are better left unsaid. --- "You mean your wife won't s peak to y ou if you dare to write about certain, ah, shall we cali themn things?" you reply. You have such a way with words. But no, I protest, that it is not it at ail. Not, ah, exactly. "Let's see," you continue. "If it is a topic about which his wife wvould not permit, we can assume that it must have something to do with either the dust bunnies he left unvacuumed under the bed Saturday morning or... Close, but no cigar. This is a no-smoking column. _______________________________________ Smokers please turn Wo page 16. "Don't try to change the topic," you continue. "EvenM sex education in schools coi.ld be discussed somehow without snickering. If it's not'about the division of household labour, then there's only one topic it could Hey, careful. This is a family paper. You had me scared. I really thought you were going to mention r right it out loud. <-Tpess:Summer, that's it. Gwen.Jacobs and the -Topless Five, that's what you're afraid of. Har, har. Old fearless Swany starting to get red in the face, lookit that would you? Ail over a brief news story. Sure:~ I thought he would be more mature than that.' There, you did it. Said it right out loud. Not that such things bother me, mind you, but some readers might be offended, I'm sure. "Topless Summer." Be serious. The reason 1 won't write about that topic has nothing to do with my embarrassment. I'm too worldly wise and sophisticated. "Then what's the problem, you old smoothie?" Some topics defy humourists. Just mention is to be misunderstood. To treat it Iightly is Wo fry yourself onl MARdI PAST FROM 116TIl BATTALION FLAG RISING, MARCH 3, 1916 misplaced metaphors. Seventy-seven years ago today, these soldiers, dressed in greatcoats, marched through the "TaIk plainly." snow fromn the Armories (now site of Toronto Dominion Bank) after dedicating a new 60-foot flagpole. This picture is taken at the corner of Brock and Dundas streets. A judge in Kitchener has ruled that women who go Whitby Arcblvcs photo topless are not g1ýuilty of an obscene act. To reduce the issue to its most borlîng legal principle, topless women do not violate community standards, at least in. Kitchener. Now how does a journalist deal with the matter? 10 YEARS AGO Television reports of the decision did seem to be a bit from the Wednesday, March 2, 1983 edition of the braver than coverage of the original incidents. Or WHITBY FRIEE PRESS maybe I just missed -the original coverage or un- Extension of GO Transit rail service to Whitby is delayed by two years, to 1988. coveageor hatver ou aîlit.But hattelvison *Sevnten idusrirlocaed r expauynded in VWhi tb in 1982 despite the recession. of cable television, video stores, commercial television, from the Thursday, Iebruary 27, 1913 ecanion ol the national content rules, national advertising, market- WIIITBY GAZEMTE AND CIIRONICLE ing strateg.es our industrial capacit ana national a Eleven-year-old Athol Erskine died from haemnophelia, a rare blood disease. economy. Good bye, Canada, helloooo U.S. sleaze. e The Base Line will be lit by electric lights near the new Ontario Hospital site. The Topless Summer , issue promises only to rede- e C.A. Goodfellow, publisher of the Gazette and Chronicle, is president of the Irish fine the leisure1 summe'weridtradmka Canadian Society of South Ontario. cottageýwea industryotofcutst nd obsceiay9 Grocer A.T. Lawlcr is selling Seville oranges for 25 cents per dozen and grapefruit at one chre.Defîinitely not worth a column. No sir.dolrerozn * etSar it is.__________________________________________