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'AGE 6, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1974, WHITBY FREE PRESS BIRD'S EYE VIEW -IM OUAIL Here We Go AgainI I guess it's because Canadians are such law abiding citizens that we get all the breaks. Or maybe we're just lucky that we're about to be faced with another season of madness otherwise known as 'election time' again. The NDP has decided it can't support the Liberal party any longer and of course the Conservatives are running all over the country saying, "I told you so!". In the U.S. they're busy trying to get their president off the throne but here in Canada we have a different kind of a problem. Our people in power can't seem to be pursuaded to stay in power long enough to get anything of value done. I can only assume we are a fantastically rich country with money to burn knowing how much an election is going to cost the voters. To the average citizen election time can be a mild disruption and even vaguely interesting but to a newsman working for a paper, radio or TV the story is much diff- erent. Local elections aren't too disruptive but national elections result in such fun things as headaches, ulcers, too much drinking and too little sieep and a 90% chance your wife will divorce you if you ever get home long enough so she can tell you. If the Yanks think -they have a problem sorting out fact from fiction and deciding if the President is telling the truth they should spend the next few months in Canada. Over here we will not only have to sort out fact from fiction while listening to a lot of ear pollution but we'll have to listen to more promises of what each party will do to solve the terrible conditions which prevail in Canada today. For the past few months the two parties in power have NOTICE Regional Municipality of Durham The Garbage Disposal Site for the Town of Whitby will be closed May 20, 1974, due to the Victoria Day Holiday. Normal operations will be continued on Tuesday, May 21st, 1974. R.F. Richardson P. Engineering Commissioner of Work. 0BROOKLIN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE DURING HORTICULTURAL WEEK IN THE TOWN OF WHITBY May 18th. to 25th. 1974 been telling us that Canada really isn't so badly off and it won't be difficult to sort out the few problems which crop up from time to time like airports we don't want, gasoline we do want, and higher taxes we don't need. Shortly the picture will change and at least two parties will crisscross the country telling the populace what rotten shape the country was in and how one party in particular botched everything up so badly it precipitated an election. I don't think you could really say the day of truth is at hand but for sure we're going to hear more sermons shortly than a sinner at a ministers convention. And promises, boy are we going to get them. Unfort- unately we will probably hear thousands of meaningless promises but never the ones we'd really like to hear. We should be looking for a politician who will get up on the soap box and promise us such things as guaranteed mail service. When I say guaranteed I mean some sort of a promise that a letter posted one month will arrive at it's destination sometime during the next month and will even remotely reseihble a letter when it gets there.- A politician should promise that during periods of strife at the post office all the mail will get through including cheques, and not just the bills. Another thing a politician should promise is that it will be easier to get a loan to buy fresh meat for the family. A grocery shopper should not have to wait a week for a security check, go through interviews and sign three prom- isory notes just to finance enough roast beef for a Sunday dinner. I've often thought Indian people must get quite a surprise when they arrive in Canada to discover cows are sacred and priceless here too! At least the powers about to resign didn't plunge us into daylight savings time beforehand as happened in the U.S. but somebody up on parliament hill has been fooling around with the seasons. l'Il be looking for a politician who will promise to give us Winters as we used to get. You konw, snow up to here and the frequently occasional day when everything stops because of too much snow and we all stay home in bed. I will also be listening for a promise that Summer of 1974 wasn't cancelled because of poor turnout. The way things are going it looks like we're heading straight into Fall. To the politicians I say, don't promise us what we can't afford to keep anyway - like airports and highways through our front yards, but give us lower taxes, better CBC television, less yakkity yak in Ottawa and more action and probably the most important of all - let us find a parking spot when we drive downtown. SummeP meals aPe fast, easy aud delicous witha NatuPal sbaPbeCue-. 30X PLANT SALES: 1 A.M. TO 7 P.M. - GRASS PARK, BALDWIN ST., BROOKLIN AAY 18th, 19th AND 20th AND MAY 25th AND 26th PROCEEDS FOR CIVIC BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING HELD IN THE BROOKLIN UNITED CHURCH HALL - 8:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22ND, 1974 /EGETABLES for the Home Garcien SPEAKER - MR. ELLS,. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXTENSION SPECIALIST WITH THE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE PRING FLOWER SHOW & ANTIQUES SALE 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. ADMISSION: $1.00 NUMEROUS DISPLAY BOOTHS BY AREA ANTIQUES DEALERS May 25th 40éêOO4 W ?cvt Sewc~e ~~6e% ~/c~« lteed BROOKLIN COMMUNITY HALL CASSELLS RD. EAST HITBW 1