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A Shaky F A decision by Durham's Regional Council last week makes us wonder if we are moving towards a time when lotteries will become standard methods of government fund- raising. Originally, the profits from lotteries such as Wintario were to be used as the government's "mad money". It could be spent on projects such as community centres, the arts, and sports. In other words, lotteries would finance undertakings that regular government fund- raising through taxation just couldn't handle. However, it seems as though there is a trend towards using our windfall lottery revenues for regular government undertakings. In other words, we may see the day when the powers-that-be will use lotteries to finance hospitals, schools, storm sewers, new roads and bridges, and perhaps even government salaries. We note that these days are not quite upon us yet. But a decision'by Durham Regional Council last week represents a step in this direction. The Durham Region asked the Province of Ontario to fund homes for the aged with lottery profits. And noting the constraints and withdrawal of subsidies for senior citizens accommodation, the Region claimed that the construction of homes for the aged was being circumvented "with consequent hardship inflicted upon the elderly persons requiring care and accommodation." We can sympathize with Durham's goal of building more accommodation for the aged. But it seems a pity to us that something as important as senior citizens housing cannot be funded through regular government revenue. Using income from lotteries is certainly a last- ditch attempt to secure funding. If such a plan is approved, we will Forty Ye It just doesn't seem possible that 40 years have gone by since that fateful day in 1939 when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain finally announced that England was at war with Nazi Germany. He had done his best to make peace with Hitler, but the invasion of Poland was the answer. We Canadians didn't enter the fray until a week later, but it was a foregone conclusion that we'd be joining Britain and France and most Canadians were ready to participate. A great deal of water has gone over the dam since then and many lives lost before Hitler's forces were finally overcome. Most of us don't think of those days too often, only on special occasions such as this the 40th anniversary. And last week it was recalled when the remaining few of the Dieppe forces held a reunion in Port Hope. But, the memories are still there, not as vivid as they once were, but ready to surface in the quiet moments of reflection. We shall never forget the horror of watching London being bombed, the sounds of the explosions and then the fires, those V-bombs put-putting their way overhead and everyone diving for cover when the engnes cut out, the signal that they soon would be exploding. We recall the indignities the British suffered sleeping in tiered bunks in the subways, like rats trying to survive. And then, on n-Day the hundreds of gliders filling the sky as they headed for France was a sight neyer to be forgotten. It was something to remember. It's difficult to pinpoint the many places where we trained from coast to coast in Canada before going overseas or even where we were stationed in foreign postings, but Southern Italy, its filth, destruction oundation have a very ironic situation in which a generation of seniors accustomed to the virtues of hard work and thrift will be living in accommodation financed by the easy-money schemes of a younger generation. If lottery funds are spent on general government projects, where will the funds come from to finance the arenas, libraries, and sports which Wintario money was supposed to support? Take away the lottery funds being spent on a new arena and use it to build something like a new road or bridge and you are bound to hear an outcry from the public. It's something like telling a youngster that the money he has been saving for a new bicycle has to be spent on school books. Finally, if the government starts to use lotteries in place of taxes you will soon find the number of government-run lotteries increasing and this will dut into the revenue of the small draws and raffles which have traditionally supported community and service club projects. We can see a definite political advantage to using lottery funds to help lower the tax rate or at least hold government spending at bay. In lotteries, the government is successfully taxing the public and making it all look like a lot of fun. Through lotteries, the government has found a new pipeline into our wallets. But let's hope that lotteries do not become a serious method of government fund-raising. Profits raised from the thousands of us who buy tickets hoping for instant fortune are a shaky financial base. What would happen, for instance, if the public got tired of lotteries and revenue dried up. The government, of course, would be left holding the bag. As with all gambling activities, we could very easily lose our shirts. ars Ago and the people will never be forgotten. Nor will a trip up through Southern France to Belgium and the Netherlands where the ravages of war were on all sides. We shall never forget flattened Arnhem and often wonder what it looks like now. Especially we remember the friends who went to Hong Kong on that disastrous mission and either didn't survive or returned as physical wrecks, much older than their years. Yes, 40 years is an anniversary to be marked because now we are in a different kind of war with a new enemy, more treacherous than Hitler and his blitzkrieg. We now have the international terrorists, those who recently killed one of World War IIs most famous leaders, Lord Louis Mountbatten. They are threatening peace in many parts of the world, and one of these days will have to be dealt with as Hitler was. And once again, the young men will be called upon to take up arms and meet the challenge. Lét's hope it's not too soon. Corner for Poets The Lamp of Faith Light the lamp of Faith It will keep you safe, It will guide you all the way, It will ease your care away. Trim the wick straight For oil you need not wait Yes, light the lamp of Faith It will keep you happy and safe. Marion Taylor Ford. Green Fields If you're searching for greener fields On some other street Look down, touch the fiowers grow- ing at your feet. Marion Taylor Ford. Bethesda Cemetery Decoration Day u> ar and ice Back to Work <4 2/ 4 Man, it's good to get back to work clean-shaven and short-haired. I hst, we weren't able to do any of the So, ail in ail, the summer was a after a long, hot, wet, cold, dry caught one nine-inch bass. I did things we'd planned. Maybe that's big, fat bore. Not any help was me summer. shoot a par in golf. On one hole. why wewound up with a phone bill with a fat, arthritic foot when my A good many teachers, with a long lil have to admit what my wif nudging the $200 mark. Per month. wife was fit, and she with some kind summer holiday, do something day al A sick brother, the colonel, in of horrible sore back when my foot exciting, interesting, or at least suggestd vy en ,hospital in Montreal, flown out from was fit. constructive.u e o a James Bay after a collapse. The didnt help that the lawnmower Some go on exotic trips to faraway Weil, we're not ail perfect. I did breakdown of a deal to rent a went on the blink, and I fiatly places, and return to bore you with get quite a few meals. Peanut butter camper and go visiting. refused to take it back to the robber their experiences for the next ten sandwich and banana for breakfast. Worrying, and trying to help, as who charged me $55.00 to get it going months. Fresh made sandwiches from The my daughter prepared to head for last time. "Let the dam' grass grow. Others go to the Stratford Oasis for lunch. Chicken pies, fish the other side of James Bay to teach That way the neighbors wont be Festival, or take a course in potting and chips, turkey dinner, Salsbury Indian kids music. Five years ago, able to see that I haven't painted the pottery, or go on a long boat trip in steak and gravy, ail of them frozen, that girl could hardly write a falling-down back-porch." their own boat, or have an affair, or for dinner. Sometimes, when my cheque. Now here she was, Oh, it wasn't a total loss. I had a make fifty gallons of peach wine menus began to repeat themselves, arranging ai the details of a major serious chat with my contractor or grow a beard. I'd send out for Chinese food. move, wth two small boys: travel neighbor about building a back deck Still others build a patio, or tear One night, carried away by some tickets, baggage shipment, gettin a to the house to replace the tumbled down a barn, or take a summer wild primitive instinct, I actually piano crated, trying to dispose of a heap of stones onto which the French course to improve their cooked up fresh potatoes, green car that wont start, and coping with windows presently permit access. qualifications, or prepare their beans, and a chunk of $2.98 sirloin. a hundred other problems. Jolly We may get it done next year courses for the fall term. Or But made the mistake of making good for her. Neighbor's too busy. something equally dull. steak gravy. It came out looking like And getting through yet another I called a guy twice to come and do Every year, it's the same thing the inner side of a diaper, and wedding, this time a piece from some brick-work. He'd be therefor with me. I make great plans for the nobody couid eat the steak. Edmonton, with my old lady running sure. Haven't seen hlm yet. Water summer, around the middle of June. -One other memorable mea1 was a in circles over gift, clothes, and ah tank in cellar began to leak, $200 for Write a book, go to the Yukon or stew I made. The usual stuff - the other garbage connected with a new one. Newfoundland, revisit boyhood onions, carrots, meat, a couple of weddings. Sat by the hour, looking at cedar haunts, have an affair, grow a beard spuds. It tasted a little fiat, so I hit Wanted to see Kim and grandboys summer furniture, stripped to a and long hair, catch a hundred bass, the spice cupboard and chucked in a off for the north. Did you ever try to grey-white by five years of weather, shoot a par round in golf. few shots of everything but mustard, get a hotel room in Toronto during and studied just how it wouldlook And this summer, as so often, I then squirted in about haîf a bottie of the C.N.E.? Travel agent called when sanded and stained and accomplished absolutely zilch. Worcestershire sauce. That steak twelve hoteis, and the only thing she varnished. It's too late now to getit I barely got my weekly column had body and a je ne sais quoi that could come up with was a deluxe done this year. written. I travelled no more than 120 my'oid lady tried to figure out for double, whatever that is, at $76.00 a Read three hundred books. miles from home. I re-visited days. night. A littie rich for the blood Watched three hundred third-run nothing except the town library. The Aside from the cookîng, there what? A one-night stand we could movies. Aimost blind from reading. only affair I've had was with a big wasn't much to do, For various and hack, but we wanted it for four. Piles bad from beer. cedar chair in my back yard. I'm sundry reasons, too misceldaneous to What would you do? I won't tel. Man, am I glad to be back to work! Sam Cure.,.atz -at sueen'soPark The doors of Queen's arrivai of repre- Control Board, a and a wel respected sha provide invaluable recommendations at Park remained open sentatives from a broad government agency academieauthorityOn assistance in future this point would be this summer as the spectrum of areas. In which acts as a the issue of nuclear es into nuclear premature. It should be Select Committee on attendance were both regulatory body over its energy. , whether on a pointed out, however, Ontario Hydro Affairs critics and proponents hcensee, Ontario Hydrt. provincial, national or that uestions launched its full scale of nuclear- energy, ex-dsnwh fromnThevidn dbi o sathe ncerngyterms inquiry into theasafetynof perts from the govern- committee heard anydcumentary ienato sate cncernngtefto Ontario Hydro's nulear ment and private sector su b missions from opraios.Tisineneas well as other inter- nuchear critics Raiph committee members citte has iprotn t efet upn ha for dinneTorrie and Dr. Gordon wasfurthermyn p n health ad the public review, the first ested groups. Edwards. Frod the non- consolidated by their vehicle to increase of its kind in Canada, The list of management sector of visit to the Nuclear public awareness. 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Arthur Porter The wealth Of mid-September. There- deveopments in the days. perspective of Ontario's Hydro as weii as Jon Chairman of the Royalmateriai comped . fore, any prediction of many areas that both nu c le a r g e n e r a t i n g Jennikens, President of Commission on Eiectrcisthe commttee since it o ah ecommitfteet'shffectthe system, witnessed the the AtomiwEnergyhPower and Plan ening in the spring conclusions and peopleofourprovince.