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My cat is a pessimist. All evidence to the con- trary. she believes every meal is her last, we are never going to get up in Optimists believe even if it does, the insurance will pay for a better one. optimists plant trees and expect them to grow fiye feet in the first year. Pessimists believe Dutch Elm Disease is only the thin edge of the wedge. Pessimists believe if you leave the house without checking twice on the iron. the house will burn down while you‘re gone. Hogwash, I say. Optimists of the world, unite, You have nothing to lose but a lot of crabby friends. “Who cares? It's here now." “Yeah? It'll make the next snowstorm that much worse." I kept saying “Nice day" to people. They kept grouching back with “Won’t last.“ It took that great weather we had a while ago to make me realize how many pessimists there were around. When the ladies first came before them, the board more or less gave them the bum's rush. But not having the courage of their evictions, they hurried to re-open the topic as soon as the first flak started to fly. Right now the board is trying to drum up the resolve to tell a group of Thornhill mothers they have no intention of heeding their plea to establish a junior kin- dergarten in the countyâ€"region to the rest of the area. They've been discussing it ever since. A few trustees, such as Dorothy Zajac and Margaret Coburn of Kingâ€"not always that That way the members can put off whatever they want for a month or two and pretend they’re doing something about the matter, but are hamstrung until they get the report. “No,” you see, is too simple, too direct; it means just what it says: “no.” Much more politic to say “maybe,” or, as in the case of the board, “staff will prepare a study." Remember that old story about the girl who spoke 12 languages and couldn‘t say “no” in any of them? I don’t know how many languages the members of York County board of education speak, but if their English is any indication, “no” wouldn't be on the tip of their other linguistic tongues. Fess/mist cat Pass/mist yes By Sharon Brain Public m/s/ea’ Egional j/s it preâ€"junior t m kindergarten next? By Jim Irving Betty‘s own wide range of interests helps her as she brings out the interesting. witty and provocative sides of herguests. In her own informal way. Betty interviews artists. Every weekday 3:05 pm to 4:00 pm. Betty Kennedy exchanges views and ideas with the personalities that are drawing public attention today Betty Kennedy & friends Sharon’s sunshine When thermal] man brings an envelope marked “Free gift in- side", will there be one? When the Sign says “Sale â€" Half Price", will they mean that dress you‘ve been looking at for three months? It‘s no wonder pessimists think op- timists are fuzzy thinkers. Will yéur lawn mower start this spring? Pessimists will answer yes to the following questions. Will Toronto come up with a winning baseball club someday? And will they let us drink beer in the ball park? 7 Do you know where the nearest fallout shelter is? Optimists would an- swer yes to the following questions. Or in. Most dogs I know are optimists. They believe everyone who opens the door is bringing dinner. the sunshine they are sleeping in will never fade. and every car is offering them a ride straight to doggie heaven. the morning, no one is ever going to come and open the door to let her out. {A‘JEt'éf’d' REESESE2§§§§$§EZ‘Ffast. ©FR®E©fi© The people people listen to Something such as: “Believe me, I never could have grasped the fun- damentalsâ€"let alone the crayonsâ€"in coloring class without junior kin- dergarten." But if they really want any more studies, perhaps they should ask those anxious mothers to prepare them. Get them to work out the cost, availability of space, format, and teacher qualifications. They could also throw in a few testimonials from satisfied kids, telling how much easier that heady adjustment from climbing trees to kindergarten was because of their previous experience. Therefore. even the board members, with their limited perceptual powers, should be able to see they could vote junior kindergartens out. without causing the kind of demonstrations experienced last week at the seal hunt in Newfoundland. resolute in such mattersâ€"and Norm Weller of Aurora, and Harry Bowes of Whitchurch-Stouffville, have told them several times they can neither afford the studies nor the schools. They were, in fact, in Mrs. Zajac’s phrase: “misleading the public.“ Still the studies go on. So far there have been enough varied studies over the years, individual reports and letters to the editor to show no six people have the same view as to the worth of junior kindergartens. Part of understanding people is understanding their environment. And Bettyjumps right in. She‘s flown with the Blue Angels. climbed down into the mines of Northern Manitoba and experienced. firsthand. a bombing in Belfast. politicians. ‘authors. educators celebrities. cab drivers...who- ever is in the public limelight. You may have merely fallen into a lot of punch bowls in your time. For example, if on the way to a party. you worry about whether you might fall into the punch bowl, you are not necessarily a pessimist. Sometimes a situation makes it hard to tell if a person really is one or the other. Optimists say pessimists crave gloom and doom. Will a new ca'r rust out before the radial tires are paid for? I myself am neither optimistic nor pessimistic. When I asked for a raise last month, it never occurred to me I wouldn‘t get one, but that wasn‘t optimism. That was unâ€" derestimating the pessimism of the boss about the value of my typing fingers. Are the Argo's going to finish last this year? Is our long hard winter about to be followed by a cold short summer? Have you begged all your friends in Quebec to come home before it's too late? Weather brings out those pessflm's ts And just because I'm Mother power /’m=' neither telling you this doesn‘t mean I‘m hoping you will write to him and tell him what a good job I‘m doing. and how much I deserve a raise so I can go on pounding out these wonderful columns. That would be op PROGRESSIVE comssnvnnvsis It's this kind of "people combination that makes tuning in on “The Betty Kennedy Show" such an enjoyable way to spend an hour. Join Betty and her friends Monday to Friday. 3:05 pm to 4:00 pm. Federal Riding Founding Méeting’ WEDNESDAY; MARCH 33:11 3:30 PM, ; DON HEAD SCHOOL _ MAJOR MACKENZIE DB. RlCHMONO HILL ‘ 1 With the success of that. the next logical step will be to have courses in which the embryos in pregnant mothers are lectured to by some method of mental telepathy. still to be perfected. Then you‘d really see restlessneSs. And the first words to form in the child‘s mind, would not likely be “Da-da,,n “Ma- ma. but. “Teacher, may I leave the womb?" Of course, it’s possible none 'of the parents remember when they were small. How being confined to home on a rainy day was regimentation enough. Starting school later on and sitting at your desk half the day like mourners at a Presbyterian wake was notâ€"and never will beâ€"something to set the blood racing. Money issue Then a little later, you can coriduct a study on pre-junior kindergartens .to ap- pease the latest generation of restless parents. - t If you keep pussyfooting around the subject long enough, you’ll soon have no alternative but to vote them in. So veto all your studies, trustees, and vote out junior kindergartens, if for no other reason than you can't afford such extras. 0r: “Before I started junior kin- dergarten. I couldn't make out with the girls at all. 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