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- ¥ Aw a A Ad LY nr ri as Der rot EN cs St ORAS Council granted $12,000. for six boys to attend a worldwide scouting Jamboree in Norway this year. Disregard the preceding. It isn't true, nor will it likely ever be. Municipal funds are to be used for 7 important things. Such as attracting new heavy' industry. Monuments and facilities to bring in (money) tourists. Better roads for skimpier cars. Conventions, receptions, and public relations. As for scouting, clubs, and community groups, well, it would be nice to help. out all these people, but you'd have to draw the line..... It is a sad commentary on the priorities of our society when we see the meager municipal funds allotted in the miscellaneous columns of the ledger -- funds that cannot be considered as anything'else but "Token'* support of a not-too-important seg- ment of society. Case in question, a group of local boy scouts who need money to go overseas on an international event. The best council could do was to table the request for some future consideration. But even then, the most optimistic view was that only a ""token" amount of money could be allotted. There is no reason to single out Scugog Township Council, either. Council must operate within a budgetary outline, and while there are extravagant provincial-federal cost sharing schemes, money for Junior's trip to Norway isn't" among them. It just isn't all that important. While there are elaborate systems to punish those who break our rules, there is very little to reward their counterparts -- those people who show promise of good citizenship, community leadership, responsiblility and enthusiasm in our society and its institutions. In fact, that's why we have frustrated athletes. David Porter, national champion skater, will get out of skating if there isn't anymore financial support. Junior may never get to be a Boy Scout. He may instead steal hub caps, throw bricks through windows, or steal cars. No one is suggesting that "It should all be done for them.'"" In fact, boys and girls, men and women who have reached the level in question have attained that success only through their own for example, has a list of accomplishments behind efforts. The boy who is picked for a trip to oni him. This is not the kind of person who would take advantage of a grant that is not needed. We are concerned about the boy who we can't reach because of programs limited by funds and subsequently, scope. We are concerned about the many more youngsters who have shown all the enthusiasm society demands and more, yet do not get the rewards. The sad fact is that more often than we like to admit, it is simply a matter of money. Perhaps the saddest statement uttered at most of these discussions is the old standard, 'not the taxpayers' responsibility'. Who but the good citizen has more to gain from ensuring a good stock of new good citizens. Vigo iF ACT TE BLY eo APL LL a Ea arf : . £ CE Bill Smiley a I think we'll all agree that there is nothing quite so downright miserable and annoying as the person who delights in saying "I told you so." Certainly, all married men will agree with me. Most of us know perfectly well that we are poor little lambs who have lost our way, that we have feet of clay and bones for brains. But we hate being reminded of it. It seems to me that there is nothing more redundant than to wake up with a hangover, mouth full of the bottom of a birdcage, head 4 ing, selfsatisfied voice grating "Well, I ict: warned you, but you wouldn't listen to me." 4 Who needs it? Who needs a post-mortem, 4 when he is still alive, though barely? I i) speak not from experience, of course, but from hearsay. Not admissible in court. After that preamble, I have to admit that I told you so. I told the whole nation so. But nobody listened. It must have been a couple of years ago, » when I warned, in no uncertain terms, that oN the rest of us were going to be picking up the 7 tabs for Napoleon Drapeau's belief that he is y really a reincarnation -of the infamous # emperor. v4 Or maybe it's Caesar he thinks he is. . Certainly he is giving us members of the populace bread and circuses, as Caesar did. Mighty light on the bread and heavy on the A circuses, full of porcupine quills, and have a smirk- - Olympic Games. silly. For Montreal. organ; it reappears. your own you-know-what.' that immortal statement: sucker"an even break." amemory, knew perfectly RTO, ---- a, "ME 72% 5aNDs | 5) ay X ; \ 7 nN" YOU JANE |" --=-- IR 0 A ) Me) ¢ * : | « Remember When..? ; 10 YEARS AGO od : 50 YEARS AGO . . Lodge and the initiation of 62 Thursday, February 19, 1925 25 YEARS AGO . candidates. Thursday, February 18, 1965 Mr. W. Somerville has Thursday, February 16, 1950 15 YEARS AGO This year appointments to purchased the farm of wm. he LO.D.E. celebrated p40 Februaryis, 1960 the local Hospital Board H. McGee at Cedar Creek (Nir Golden Jubilee, Mrs. = "pic oc ine soth year of Were: For Port Perry - and will move in the spring. Jean Dymond as Regent, Scouting in Canada. Scouts Charles Reesor; Reach At the Carnival held in the "3S Master of Ceremonies "py Perry celebrated Township - Harry Phoenix; arena this week, winning | hensome forty membre of with a Father and Son Scugog Township - Joseph first prize for the best cos. Lc LOT DEITY Thapler Eh po quet. Mr. Harry Eden. Dowson; Township of Cart- tumes were Helen Mellow, joyed a banquet. At that borough was Chairman. wright - Merrill VanCamp; * ¥ second Lena Spencer. For time, the Port Perry Chapter Field Commissioner Wally County of Ontario - Irving boys, under 14 years, aS thirty Years old. ~The Harper and Field Commis- Boyd. . William Carnegie, second Chapler in that time, hadten 0 0, 5, training Don A Port Perry rink won the Bob Brown. For old time Lcgents all of whom were po 0 ore guests. John Ballard Lumber Co. costume, first prize went to wing at that tipe.. A special meeting called Curling trophy this year, Grace Cawker, second E. At the regular meeting of by Port Perry council to look they were Ruth Mitchell, Malcolm. Port Perry council, Mr. Sam ='. thirty-three applicat- Mary Jean Heron, Iva Mit- g The Oshawa High School . CFiffen approached the oc" "lice constable. chell and Helen Bathie. a was eliminated from the CoUnCil With a request on Twenty-four applications At the regular monthly Interscholistic Hockey race Dchalf of the Boy Scout eliminated, and the meeting of the Hospital Aux- when the Port Perry team Committee, that the land ooo ped to write or iliary, a cheque for $100.00 won by a 4-0 score and UPOR Which the new Scout phone the remaining nine. was presented to them by the advanced another rung to- DUilding was to be built, be Ty," po Robertson of Ladies Orange Benevolent wards the top. deeded to the Boy Scouts pp "5 pon perry, was Association of Blackstock. Mr. Hugo Bradley and instead of leased, This was appointed director of the Interested women from Tom Price have had radios to be looked into by the town yp. ester Credit Union at Port Perry and surrounding & ° installed recently, over SCl'¢I'Or. 'their annual meeting. area gathered at the home of which they are He Toolorionds olmembas yy ner Smith, Prince Mrs. S. Cawker for the pur- = some splendid enter. °f Maybelle Rebekah Lodge Albert, attended a two-day Pose of organizing a Handi- tainment. went io Breoklin to silend ou pores safety Con- craft Guild. After some the Institution of Kinoven ference in Guelph. (continued on page 5) I ° Drapeau"s little game 4 & 1 Isaid it right here, in black and white, that ~~ 80ing to be reamed like an old pipe, but they splitting one 10 ways. He's not interested. the mayor of Montreal was going to take us wouldn't listen. He wants coliseums, palaces, and probably for a fast buggy-ride, when he got the Oh, well, what the heck. A prophet is wouldn't object to a few graven images of For Canada? Don't be Without honor in his own country. You in himself scattered about the city. your small corner, and I in mine. Did you notice that when the Olympic The handwriting is now on the wall, loud My severest critic of my point of view is Committee was on the edge of the abyss, and clear. And as fast as M. Drapeau rubs it not my wife, as is most often the case. She + looking into it, there wasn't exactly a off, or licks it off with his eloquent labial thinks the Games are something the teen- scramble among the world's nations to pick ,. } ages play down at the Olympia restaurant. up the tab? : ~ «; It seems inevitable that you and me, The only connectioy is that the proprietors The only tentative offer was from the sistern and brethren, are going to be picking of the Olympia are|Greek. Arab swingers, who are in similar circum- up a big, fat tab for the 1976 Montreal No, my chief opposition comes from my stances to the old lady who lived in a shoe. Games. And the games is the word, if the assistant departnient head, which only They have so many barrels they don't know Olympics consist of running - in ever- confirms my long-held view that she is what to do. Admitted, barrels are better decreasing circles until-you disappear up bigoted, thick-headed disloyal to her chief, than children these days, but there's a limit. ' 5 ~~ and a lousy shuffleboard. player. Say. Pardon me for a moment. Just had a Let's not blame it onthe construction. ~ Hentargument goes like this: "The thought. Those Arabs are buying up strikes in Montreal. - Let's now blame it on' . Olympic Games are for all of Canada. Why © practically anything these days. Wonder if , \ inflation. Let's blame the $300 milliori'dollar. * shouldn't all Canadians help pay for them?" they'd be interested in some fine moose ' deficit (and who knows how. much more?), + Well, she's all wet, in Which she wouldn't pasture I own up north. Used to be called on the delusions of grandeur of the rolyiest- weigh 85 poguls, soaking. i. S53 mining stocks. gt polyiest con man since P. T. Barnum made Nobody asked me if I want the stupid Probably not. However, maybe they'd 'Never give a Olympic Farce in Canada. -And? yeti though take a flyer on a pure-bred hybred cat. Half a © T'wasn't asked, I said NO. {i} EE wolf, half pig. And by golly, the price is Hank Bourassa of Quebec and Pete By me, the Olympic.-Games consist of right. This gem, this jewel, this loving, Trudeau of Ottawa knew they were dealing someone proving that he or she can do lovable creation is going for four quarts o with a greased eel when they tangled with something completely useless better than oil and a one-billionth share in the Holy 01d Drapeau, but all they did was make polite anyone else. Eruption Oil Company. political noises, assuring the suckers that it If Mayor Drapeau had shown any desire to Now, how did I get away off here in the oil wasn't going to cost more than niaybe seven clean up Montreal, which has the worst fields? Let's see. Trudeau, oily. Bourassa, cents each to put on this extravagorama. slums, .the worst sewage system, probably. Qilier. Drapeau, oiliest. Some of us, those posscesing the gift, and the highest crime rate in Canada, I'd buy a A simple matter of conjugation. thatwe were whole ten-dollar lottery ticket, instead of The Argyle Syndicate Lid.