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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 26, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Victoria, Where Art Thou? Something has definitely gone wrong with our weather. And we'd be happy if Queen Victoria could use her influence, wherever she may be, to see that it is corrected before we celebrate her next birthday. Always, Victoria Day, the glorious 24th of May is supposed to be the occasion for welcoming warm weather and sunshine. This year, anyone vho had taken off their storm windows was premature. In, fact, we could very easily have frost, one of these days or a foot of snow. How are you supposed to enjoy the holiday weekend at the cottage, or watching a parade, or ball games when your teeth are chattering and your bones creak from the cold? You don't suppose we gradually are returning to the ice age? With the price of heating oil going up all the time and the supplies running out, one would have thought that Prime Minister Trudeau would have brought in some legislation ordering the weatherman and his staff to go to The Churche For thousands of years the forces of organized religion have been fighting an up-hill battle against all the weaknesses of human nature and the inclination of mankind to fight, rather than pray. Nor is it only the Christian church which has had its difficulties. Even pagan faiths had to fight every step of the way to maintain their influence and usually did so successfully when they had kings and chiefs firmly under their thumbs.1 In the early years of the Roman civilization religious beliefs and stilli moral standards were the accepted norm, but in its latter centuries, when Rome was rich and powerful, worship of the gods became a joke to the wealthy. In fact, most civiliza- tions have experienced the same pattern. When a people are poor and hard-working religious beliefs are strong and habits of personal life are rigid; given increasing wealth and leisure, morals are abandoned. A recent news article states that only 32 per cent of Canadians are regular church attenders. Speaking with a friend from Quebec recently we were told that Roman Catholie churches in that province "are empty". Almost all Christian churches are struggling to maintain their own local congregations, let Hopes for Lat There can be very few Canadians who do not feel a strong desire for a common sense of national purpose. If the division within the country can be healed, we all wish to heal them. In unity there is strength. The Canadian Labor Congress now stands with pistol cocked and pointed at our heads. The ammunition with which the gun is loaded is the resolution of its convention supporting a national strike. The shot is to be fired if the federal government does not give, organized labor a greater say in the forming of economic policy. Do we consent to bargain with a man waving a loaded gun? The answer in this case is yes. For the first time, the trade union movement in Canada is indicating it is willing to talk about the welfare of the nation, as distinct from the welfare of the trade union move- ment alone. And in any case the ammunition in the gun is a dud, a shell without powder. We have nothing to fear, and a great deal to gain. Examined apart from the accom- panying sabre-rattling, what the CLC's new economic manifesto seeks is a new deal for labor. If such a new deal - partnership instead of confrontation - can be worked out, it will offer a new deal for Canada as a whole. There is promise here of a national unity of purpose, and it ought to be explored. For that reason, the Trudeau government should see the mani- festo as an opportunity and set in work on the problem before things get serious. But, he's done nothing and the opposition hasn't even taken the opportunity to blast the govern- ment for its inaction. About all any of us little people can do is remember the summer weather we had for Easter and hope that isn't all that we're going to get this year. Then, to cap it off, there weren't even any fireworks in town or thei area for the holiday festivities, for, the first time in many years. It would appear that the inflated cost of gun powder, plus all the regulations that have corne into effect over the years, and the insurance that has to be bought in case someone happens to get hurt, have discouraged service clubs from risking such a project. Oh well, maybe next year things will be better. We certainly hope so because this year's Victoria Day was a total loss. s in Trouble alone support a viable missionary effort. Sectarian strife has reached the point of mass murder in Ireland, in Lebanon and Cyprus. What has gone amiss with such a large proportion of this world's people? All faiths Moslem as well as Christian - face the dilemma of trying to fit the beliefs and standards of two thousand years ago to the fast-changing times of the 20th century. There are few among us, even the most advanced thinkers, who can really measure the depth of change through which we are passing. The churches, like the rest of us, are groping in the dark for answers to problems we do not yet comprehend. There is little doubt that the world's great faiths will soniehow survive. They have done so through countless other periods of change. The fall of the Roman Empire and the industrial revolution were suf- ficiently earth-shattering in their own times, and the religious consciousness of most people some- how re-emerged. But religious leaders will have to delve very deeply to find new answers for aworld which has lost so much of its faith in the unseen. - Wingham Advance Times )or Peace motion the machinery for top-level talks involving government, in- dustry and labor. Negotiations should begin at once: we have already drifted too long and too far already. It would be a grave mistake now to get on our high horse and express indignation that the CLC's proposal is accompanied by threats. Threats became part of the labor move- ment's armamentarium long ago, and for good reason. What the Canadian Labor Con- gress offers now is a chance to make such threats obsolete and unneces- sary. It is only a chance, but it should be explored, and the Canadian people - tired of strikes and bemused by government's failure to foster labor peace through its own policy initiatives - will want to see it taken. Organized labor operates in this country like a Third Force, isolated but not contained, not understood and so far unable to make itself understood, venting its frustration through a kind of guerrilla warfare that makes a mockery of the plans of government and industry for economic develop- ment. Notwithstanding that the mani- festo as declared contains many unacceptable terms, it is a valuable working paper for initial discus- sions. The guerrillas have volunteered to talk peace. The government and business should respond in kind. -Examiner Durham County's Great Family journa! Established 122 years ago in 18un Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY. LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LiC 3K9 JOHN M. JAME Editor-Publishe GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. S Dr BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. 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Any unauthorized reproduction will be subject to recourse in law." $10.Ou a year --6 months $5.50 Foreign - $21 .00 a year strictly in advance Although every precaution will be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advert i eng in its columns on the understanding fof i vewil snofbe hable for any error in the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof of such advertisemnent is requesfed in wrlflng by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertlser and with such error or corrections plainly noted in wrIting thereon, and in that case If any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion 0f the enire cos tof such advertisemenf as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertlsemenf. This week's announcement of an increase in oil and gas prices will pose some serious problems for Ontario citizens. Basically, a gallon of gas- oline is going to increase by 4 cents on August 29, and increase again by a further 2 or 3 cents on March 2 of next year. This means that between September 1976 and Septem- ber 1977, if you use, say, 570 gallons a year for driving, your expenditure on gasoline will go up by $28.50 over that twelve-month period. If your home is heated with oil, using 800 gallons a year, during the same period your heating bill will go up $40.00. Therefore, even in the short term, the consumer faces an increase of roughly $70.00in his fuel costs. Later, if no further in- creases are announced for 1978, a full year at the 6 cent increase will mean we pay $3420 over present gasoline costs (for 570 gallons) and $48.00 extra in heating oil costs (for 800 gallons), for a total of at least $80 more per year. In the province generally, every t ime the price of a gallon of gasoline goes ur one cent, the total cost of petrol- eum products bought by consumers goes up a stagger- ing $30 million. A 6-cent per gallon increase puts up this total figure to $180 million. In the remaining non-consumer sectors, the impact of a 6 cent increase raises total petrol- eureproduct costs $225 mil- lion. Thus, adding in $163 million in increased natural gas costs, the total direct cost of this federal announcement to the economy of Ontario is, shudder, $568 million. There will be noticeable effects. The crude oil increase in itself may lower the Gross Provincial Product by $175 million and causethe loss of some 13,000 jobs. One must ask whether this is in a good cause. That question quickly splits into two separ- ate issues: firstly, is the timing of the increases fair in relation to present inventories of petroleum products? And, secondly, can we be sure that exploration and development of Canadian oi reserves will be enhanced in real terms by means of this extra revenue to the oil companies. To take the first issue. In 1975 Stephen Lewis and the NDP in general were con- sidered fairly extreme in suggesting that not nearly enough price-freeze time had been allowed to clear the systemn of existing inventories when increases were an- nounced, and that the oil companies were having a bonanza by charging the increased rate on oi they had already made a profit on at the old rate. Last September Mr. Lewis stated before the Isbister Commission that at July 1, 1975 the inventory of oil products was sufficient to meet 106 days demand. When the Commission issued an interim report in November, he was supported in that view. The commissioners stated: "On June 30, 1975... inventories were equivalent to about 107 days of supply." Inventories are not a phoney issue or simply an excuse for us to breathe fire upon corporate greed. In the present situation, using the same statistical methods, we believe that a freeze should be in force until October 24, 1976, that is to say, for 116 days. As a result of the 60-day freeze announced, windfall gains to the oil companies from their Ontario inventories will be about $30 million. What will all of us get after we have paid out this $30 million? That leads into the second issue, the issue of future supply, exploration and development. At present, prices are set in a vacuum. No-one knows how much the companies or the producing provinces are going to get from the basic price, and no-one bas any idea how much is actually going to be put into exploration and development. No-one seems to have thought even about how much should be put into exploration and development. The result is that we pay the industry to explore, we have no control over the amount or nature of the exploration, and the in- dustry reaps the profits when we actually pay for the oil. In the NDP view, we need a much better dovetailing of exploration and supply and we need planning we can count on to be accurate in the years ahead. Although any energy policy for Canada mus federal, in Ontario we w like to see exploration m the responsibility of ai Ontario Resources Corp tion. We have also sugge that the present Ont Energy Board be given power to determine whe ou price increases are j fied on the basis of increa costs together with a rea able return on equity., To my mind, it is at a when inflation-scarce tac are being used that consur have to be most on guard do not want to see the mo we need vanish into corpo or governmental budg without good reason. 25 Years Ago STl O Thursday, May loth, 1951 B o w mPBowmanville Council accepted plans and agreement Cfor tenew highwaC nd Cloverleaf near C.N.R. Station ending a 25 year old ,'controversy over the right of way at the C.N.R. Station on the road to the West Beach. SOfficers for 1951 of the Local 189 United Rubber Workers re Pres. Bro. Ivan Hobbs, ice-pres., Bro. D.S. Kemp, T Treas., Bro. E.J. Gibbs. Elford Cox formerB.H.S Sotugh Kianisfomer ic Fesiva stulannuaes at Uer ransd College, Toronto is gaining stature as a noted sculptor.o Drham District High HrveyBevrle Mctobbhe dgetfr G9ai$ Harey, Competing in the Peterbor - ough Kiwanis Music Festival at 'Murray Baptist Church, from this, area, are Carol HareBevre eobe Margaret Gobeen, Heather Harvey, Beverley Allison, Paige Lycett, Gloria Robson, Lillian Marlowe, Christina Ilives - the best part. 0f course, Lamb, Peggy Barrett and this is a bit drastic, but still, Karen Mutton. Smany people dread hitting Stores in the area handling b~ their thirtieth birthday and t e Ca ada Satsm n send cards of sympathy to the DCanasdian StatesmNw friends who are celebrating castler D.G.Walton; New- t be theirs. On second thought, castle, F.L. Byam, Tyrone, ould "celebrating" isn't exactly G.A. Barron, Hampton, Say- nade the word for it. wel's Blackstoc1, Bradley's new Such a person is my sister. I Pontypool. ora- sted ario the ther usti- ased ison- time ctics mers . We oney rate gets OntarîO Has Fe wer Fires Report There were 23,913 fires in Ontario during 1975, a reduc- tion from the 24,36t7 that occurred in 1974, a report on fire losses in the province has shown. The report released by the, Office of the Fire Marshall also shows that some of the Town of Newcastle's 30,359 population lost $399,868 in 80 fires thatoccurred last year. In the five year period from 1971 to 1975, each year an average of 32 fires broke out in the area causing a total of $190,781 damage., The figures from the various municipalities indicate that Hope Township's population of 3,190 had 12 fires in 1975 causing $103,519 damage, Scugog Township, witb a population of 10,962, fought 35 fires last year that did $174,626 Shows in damage, and Port Hope with 9,320 residents had 16 fires and lost $244,374 in fine damages. Over the five yean peniod, 1971-75, Hope Township had 16 fires each year that did $62,265 damage, Scugog Township had 28 fires with $138,866 in damages and Port Hope with 18 fines eacb year losL $132,705 in damages on the average. In Ontario, fire losses per capita rose from $15.93 in 1974 to $15.99 in 1975. Across Canada fire loss per capita in 1974 was estîmated af $19.10. The average amount of damage done in each fire in' 1975 increased to $5,501 from $5,281 in 1974. The $220 increase for each fine from 1974 to 1975 came as the result of inflationary trends, the report states. In the Editor's Mail' May 17,1976 Dear Mr. James: The following resolution of the Community Services Comn- mittee was adopted by Council on May 17, 1976: "That the Town of Newcastle deeply appreciates the efforts of Mn. John James and his staff at the Canadian States- man in covering Civi eFune- tions in the Town." Yours very truly, Gertrude Gray, Deputy Clerk. Sir; About 3,000 women attended a rehgious convention called Women Aive this past week- end at Waterloo University in Waterloo, Ontario. The women came from various parts of Canada .They were old, young, deaf, blind, black, white, yellow, crippled, fat, thin, depressed, calm, pressured and tired. They had in common a well-groomed appearance, respectably new carsand thet oney to buy the books and apes adventised frequently by the speakers. These women were urged to initiate Bible Study groups, pray, reac the advertised books, bave their souls res- cued and to save others. Not one reference was made to whether and how women should apply their abilities and religious insights to cur- rent issues on local or national levels. There was-no mention of environment, abortion, lonehiness, old age or dying. Nothing was said regarding Canada's involvement in arms sales, nuclear power, immi- gration policies, capital pun- ishment, the work ethic, unemployment or the loss of buman values. IL wasvnot even hinted to us that we should read or talk about these issues; that we might, as a middle-class multitude have the power to see right prevail for victims of the status quo, the victims of the institutions who send congratulatory telegrams fto be read on the convention platform. I stilI havent found the passage which reads, "Where two on hree housand are gathered together in my name, there I am also." Maybe it was in the twos and threes laughing over coffee, or looking forbroou keys on yawning because -tbey'd stayed up late, talking. I hope for all our sakes that it wasn't a complete waste. Upon These Ruins Women alive, said they who had died in the womb, Growing to be sisters and wives and mothers of dead souls, The dead walking hand in hand with the dead, instruct- ing them In the ways of dying. One advised me that Contemplation of the navel led f0 selfcentredness. This great gathering - together of dead women was the navel, Still attached to an umbilic- al firhy planted in the grave, Which kept us agoni4ng on our own souls. The people in the outside world were souls to be collected like stones, To shore ours up against someone who chuckled. "Women alive? Dust to dust!" As he sent -the rock-piles crashing And sent the graders thnough. Jikke Miedema "Out o'f The Mouths of B-abes" by E. P. Chant In journalism, a writer writes the number "30" at the bottom of a story which means the end of the story. In life, many people con- sider the number "30" the end of a significant part of their have been told that when she was a teenager she thought iL was terrible when our aunt hit thirty (I guess she adhered to the wise maxim "Never trust anyone over thirty" - brilliant- ly uttered by a philosophical twenty-eight year-old). Well, you guessed it - this very year (on May 27th to be precise), my sister (the per- petual teenager) will be all of thirty years old. As a note of consolation, I thought I'd try to cheer her up a little (this may not be a good way Lo start, telling the whole world that my sister has bit thirty, but it',l get better). Dearest, you must learn to F. M il N M M look on the bright side of the situation. Now that you've bit thirty, you've gotten over the toughest part of your life, even if you thought it was fun at the time. You don't have to worry about diaper rash, prickly heat, the Bogey Man, coal in your Christmas stocking, bullies, how you look, where your next meal is coming from (since you'll be cooking it), or, most importantly, 'you won't have to worry about hitting thirty. Or, you could look at it this way - the normal life expect- ancy of the average Canadian In the Dim 1and Distant Past. 49 Years Ago Thursday May 26th, 1927 Orangemen of the County of Durham West will celebrate 1the 237th anniversary of, the Battle of the Boyne in Bow- manville on July 12th with the local lodge making the arrangement for the county walk. Members of the general committee include - A. Connell, H. Henning, J. Swind- ells, Major Bounsall, C. Gatchell, Tom Sellers, A. Fletcher, and A. Halliday. Warden M. J. Elliott an- nounces the annual boat trp to "Flower City," Rochester on June 8th for the Counties' Councillors. Leaving Cobourg at 8:30 a.m. the return fare is $2.05 adults, $1.05 children including war tax. F. Depew announces that every Wednesday and Satur- day, during June, and every Monday, Wednesday and Sat- urday after June, there will be dancing to the music of Fred Tuerk and bis Montmarte musicians. Olga. Todd, Public Health Nurse will hold a conference for infants and pre-school children each Friday after- noon in the council room. Mr. J. E. W. Philip council- lor and Sect'y-treas of the Community Hall managing committee, Newcastle addressed the Unity S.S.Class banquet with an inspiring speech on wiNewcastle the Neat. Neat." woman is about seventy-two years. The last thirty are downhill and all fun and games. So, you're three- quarters of the way to the peak of the hill and in another ten years you'll be able to start to coast. There, you don't feel bad about being thirty now, do you? If you still aren't happy consider the fact that I'm twelve years away from being thirty myself. I'd like someone around to tell me how much fun it was to be thirty and I don't want a liar, so be happy 50 you won't have to fib. Happy birthday, beautifuL end Spc : By Bih SmFleye That Sinking Feeling This is a time of year when a lot of school teachers get a sinking feeling. All year they have been laboring in the fairly barren vineyards of their students, sustained by the knowledge that there is still time to produce a green shoot or two, and maybe even enough grapes to make some kind of brew. Suddenly, there are only 16 teaching days left, and there is the dreadful realization that they have exhausted all their skills, and that it had about as much effect on Susie and Joe as would a bucket of water poured over a seal. It just doesn't stick. Thus, when they should be looking forward with anticipation to end of term and summer vacation, many teachers find themselves instead in a veritable Slough of Despond. It is the students' perennial belief in miracles that puts the teachers onto anti-depressant pills about now. Aside from school work, adoles- cents are not dumb. They are quite aware that education these days is a sociological jungle from which they have a far better chance of emerging unscathed than do those poor devils who try to teach them. They know that in our enlightened society, "failure" is a dirty word, and that everyone from the Minister of Education, through the school board, down to their classroom teacher, will do back flips trying to avoid pinning such a label on them. Many students know perfectly well that they can goof around most of the year, play truant, miss assignments, be late with essays, and nothing very terrible will happen to them. In fact, if they go around looking serious and sincere for the last few weeks, and do a little work, there's every chance that they will scrape or scramble through, only to repeat the whole process the next year. Born and raised in a society where it is no shame to accept charity, because it's now dignified as welfare, wbere unemployment in- surance is a cosy cushion against adversity, where their aged parents wi1l be looked after by the state, where the work ethic is scorned, where the semi-literate hockey player or pop star is not only idohized but rich, the kids are not going to get their shirts in a knot over something as apparently irrelevant as doing well at school. And let's not blame them too much. Let's take a look at the world we're passing on to them. It's a world strangling-drowning in its own poisons, created by the greed of past generations. The kids see the greed and the poisoning going right on. Small wonder they are a little cynical about some of the virtues such as unselfishness and the golden rule. It's a world in which the rip-off is admired, on the whole. They see unions ripping off management, management ripping off the con- sumer, everybody trying to rip off the government. So why not rip off the school system? It's the biggest sucker of all. It's a world in which the media pander to the bizarre and violent. The hijacker, the terrorist are overnight sensations. Is it naive to suggest that these are responsible, to some extent, for the bomb warnings, and the incredible vandal- ism in our schools? It's a world of drugs. The old man has his drinks every night and gets smashed on the weekend. The old lady has 18 different kinds of pills. Why not run away from reality by emulating them. It's a world in which the daily papers are full of examples of corruption in high places. A senator here, a president there, has helped himself. So what's wrong with cheating so long as you aren't caught? It's a world in which the best and bravest are often bullied by the brutal and belligerent. So why not give the teachers a hard time? "They can't do nothin' to ya, anyhow, 'cept senja home. So what? Write a note and sign your old man's name." Not a very pretty picture? You're right, gentle reader. But this is not an indictment of students. It's a cry of shame for the society we're handing on to them. Let's restore "failure" to our vocabulary. Let's restore "excel- lence," another word that's been dropped. Let's show the kids that apathy is ugly, that reason is superior to violence, that love and sex are not synonymous, tha compassion and courage far out- weigh cruelty and cowardice. I'm sorry for them, and what we have shown them. But I don't despair. Let's show them it's a beautiful world, and that they are beautiful and that they are needed to - make it more beautiful. Then watch them go. Report From Queens Park I1 1 by DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P.