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Bill Smiley

The thin
line

AS WEall know, especially
those who have ever en-
gaged in sports, there’s a
very thin line between being
a hero and being a bum.
One day you're at bat,
three runs behind, three
runners on base, the count
three and two, and you
smashahomerun. Two days
later, in exactly the same
situation, you strike out.
Same man, exactly. First
Lime, you are cheered to the
echo, Second time, you are
booed out of the park.

I'd like to report that most
of the time, my wife thinks
(ma hero. But this columa
has always been noted for a
dedication to veracity. Most
of the time she thinks I'm a
bum.

Not just an ordinary bum.
I quote: “Bill Smiley, you are
a lazy, procrastinating bum!"

Don't think I just sit there
and take it. Oh, no. I point
out with some gusto that
she's never held a steady job
inher life, except as a mother
and housewife, that no guy
who teaches allday and runs
an English department with
10 teachers init, and writes a
weekly column, can be called
lazy.

But it seems we're not
talking about the same lazy.
She's talking about evading,
short of anything worse than
athreat of death, cleaning up

the basement rather than

playing golf. I'm talking
about the higher things in
life.

As far as the “procrastina-
ting” goes, I'll admit, honest -
ly and openly, that [ procras-
tinate.

Butonly in alimited way. I
am not.an across-the-board
procrastinator.

T'll confess that, from time
to time, on certain occasions,
[have been known, all things
considered, by some sus-
Ricious people, who are
themselves too aggressive,
to procrastinate. .

But the third term in that
pejorative remark, “bum,” I
will not accept, not even

from the Old Battieaxe.
A bumis oneaftwo things:

a rear end; a person who
refuses towork. Iamnotthe
former, though I have a few
enemies who would question
it. Tam net the latter. E have
worked sinee I was a strip-
ling. But I started work
cleaning out lavatories, and I
don't intend to flaish ‘work
cleaning up the basement.
Allthisis merely preamble

to the happy note of this’

column. Last weekend, fer
almost 72 hours, with only a
couple of relapses, my wife
thought I was a hero, not a
bum.

It was time for one of our
semi-annual safaris to the
city. These are usually
pretty ghastly.
vaguely about going to a
good hotel, seeing a couple of
top shows, and eating a
gourmet dinner or two in

1 talk,

posh restaurants, She thinks
it’s all set.

Comes the weekend. I've
forgotten all about it. The
trunk of the car has sprung
from backing into a tele-
phone pole. No hotel reser-
vation. You couldn't get a
ticket to that special show if
your initials were P.E.T.
And we have to stand in line
for an hour for that gourmet
gtub, which is one step
better than the local greasy
spoon, and eight times as

costly.

Relations are strained.
We go back to our second-
rate hotel, burping garlic
which has covered a multi-
tude of culinary sins, and
sulkily watch a TV show that
we saw, as a re-run, last
November,

But this'time. Ah, this
time. It was like a honey-
moon. A week before,
driven by who knows what
buried guilt, I sneaked to the
telephone one evening, and
laid everything on, Hest
hotel in the city. Room
overlooking thelake. Tickets
for two shows. Dinner
reservations. Next day [ got
the car washed and gassed.
Sneaked away early from
work,

The Old Girl couldn't
believe it. Everything
worked. They hadn't
screwed up our reservations
for once. Traffic was mur-

- derous, but only one bus

driver really went out of his
way to get us, The. shows
were terrific. Dinners wera
excellent, no waiting.

And the weather wag
splendid, I think His Awe-
someness had finally decided
to let poor old Bill Smiley be
something other than a bum,
at least for 72 hours.

As I sat on the 26th floor,
looking over the lake, while
my wife was shopping next
morning, and wondered
what the poor people were
doing today, 1 couldn’t help

thinking that God was in His

heaven, for onee, and all was
right with the world.

Bui wait. It didn’t end
there. Going out of the city,
we dropped in to see our
grandsons, with appropriate
gifts. They wanted to leave
their parents and come home
with Gran-Dat and Gran.
How about that?

And one final frosting on
thecake. We got home. Lo.
And Be Hold. The storm
windows had been taken off,
and the windows polished.
The lawn had heen cut, and
the place looked great, {I'd
forgotten to tell the storm
window man and the boy who
cuts the lawn that we'd be
away.)

I didn’t let on. Just said:
“Well, I see the variets have
heen at work, as instructed.”

You won't believe this, but
the old lady actually said,
“You know, sometimes, Bill
Smiley, you re nota lazy, pro-
crastinating bum.” How's
that for an accolade?

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TAY WALKING FOR YOUR HEALTH

Thirty years ago the aver-

age child walked to school.
Twenty years ago the child
was content to ride on a bus
occasionally, Ten years ago
he tried to tatk dad into giv-
ing him the family car once
in awhile. Today he is ex-
tremely’ unhappy and often
refuses to go to school un-
Jess he either has his own
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‘ways. .
If you have had the op-
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mediately upon getting off
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Participate in sports activi-
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Our high standard: cf liv-
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seem to have made the Unit-
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than a participating one.

Most health experts re-
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in a luxury society that
gives incentive to sitting,
riding, and watching, rather
than actively participating.
For our health’s sake, we
mut go back to a way of
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to 40 years ago.,

Your doctor of chiro-"

practic reminds you that
there have been great ad-

A BRISK FAMILY WALK—
It can improve health and
lead to healthier family
relationship,

vancements made in the
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Pains of mysterious ori-
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It is often an act of wis-
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{Q) 1 will be 65 years of age
in June, 1976, 1 have worked
and made maximum contribu-
tions to the Canuda Pension
Plun since it began January |.
1966. | plain to retire on
November 30, 1976. Should !
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contributing until 1 retire in
November?

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1960, und far u ten year
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New look to CN’

passenger service

There's
a new lok to Canadian Na-
fional’s passenger service and
it’smorathan just a few coats of
paint. . ;

CN has put up’ $2 million to
sell improved passenger serv-
ices in the Quebec City-Windsor
‘corridor’? and part of the new
image—slick, quick and chic—
are the fast Turbos with a new
blue-and-yellow color scheme ta
replace the old red-and-white,

One steward who has been
riding the rails for more than
half a century Is skeptical: “If a
marriage is headed for divorce
and one of the partners paints
the house yellow, is that going to
save it? ~

“They do something to spruce
up business every once in a
while, attract a few passengers
and then don't know how to
handle them.”

The public relations men
think otherwise.

They point to the extra runs
linking Toronto, Montreal and
Otlawa; three added between
Toronto and Kingston; one
more on the Torento-Sarnia line
and lwo cn the Toronto-Kitch-
ener-Stratford run. There is
algo a bus service to connect the
Ottawa railhead with pas-
sengers in Kingston and the
capital district.

There are also $20,000 paint
jobs like those which now bed-
eck the Turbos plansied for all
passenger trains.

There are no new trains to
Quebec City, bul first-class fa-
cilities have been expanded,

These routes lost $18.5 million

When primitive man dis-
covered fire and heat, he was
able to supplement his diet of
fruits, nuts, berries and ani-
mai products with -many
cooked vegetables he. would
have had difficulty digesting
raw.

last year but the government
says they must be maintained
for “social reasons,”

The Turbo, CN’s pride and
joy, was christened the VIA
program last month when it
reached 140.6 m.p.h. on a seven-
mile stretch during a run to To-
ronto.

With more than 914,000 miles
behind it, the train's reliability
factor is pegged at 98.6 per cent.
it’s made In Canada, runs on
five lighlweight gas turbines
and its payload enables it to
cruise at high speeds without
damaging existing tracks.

To some ‘who take trains
regularly, the price is right, the
services are good, the scenery
is great and “the hassles at an
airport are enough todrive any-
one crazy.”

Olhers, especially if they
have experienced the overnight
TorontoMoitreal milk mn—
eight hours, 335 miles, 13
stops—preler flying,

The railways are an integral
part of the Canadian mys-
tique,” says a Montreal econo-
mist. ‘Even if you've never rid-
denon a train, you like to think
you'll always be able to.”

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