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FOYTA FIFRA ANSI wally RY LTLLX'Y J AYN SASL oS JE [STO AVR RY SPARE CIN 4 +) dente dud letters Needs chance to show talent Dear Sir: I read with interest your story about the new Durham Region Economic Development "Commissioner." For two years of frustration, I worked as an outside supplier of advertising and promo- tional writing and materials to that depart- view of the internal workings of the Region's bureaucracy not generally available to taxpayers. As you mentioned, in your story there have been two previous direc- tors in the position Gerard Gervais now oc- cupies. One of them, Tom Flood, is probably executives in Canada. He is currently a full time consultant on sych mat- ters to the Metro Toron- to government. We who pay the bills may proper- ly ask why our regional government officers saw fit to deprive us of such expertise. Mr. Gervais may potentially be the best changes in the ad- ministration above him, he will never get a chance to demonstrate his talents. I wish him luck, but I suspect that in a year or two still another Development Commissioner will leave Durham 'under unplea- sant circumstances." PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1983 -- 5 St PORT PERRY STAR CO LUMITED 135 QUEEN STREET (+ Cha J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor 198) Rr NERS ADA OMmy on GS ME ey 0 55) Qs R20 Ira ins assole EWspapeRs CON PO 80190 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 INO (406) 985-738) ( (549) (= Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd Port Perry Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department. Ottawa. and for cash payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35* ment. Of particular the best professional value was a participant's economic development field, development man in the but without Glen Morehouse Seagrave bill smiley AN ODE TO THE YOUNG One of the many things that occasionally arouse my ire is ancient, self-satisfied, right-wing journalists whc reiterate that Canadian young people are basically bums, spoiled by affluent parents, ready to flop ontc welfare, eager to grab unemployment insurance after a few months of work, lazy on the job, irresponsible, averse to anything resembling a dirty job, or a menial one, what-ever that is. These writers would prefer our young people to be semi-robots like the Japanese, who join a company, live with the company, eat with the company, suckle from the company, clap hands when the company gives them a holiday, and are retired when they are too old to work any more, but not fired: they get a job sweeping up the joint at barely enough yen to put rice on the table. The same writers celebrate young Germans who go ~ into an apprenticeship at 14, work like dogs for peanuts until they are journeymen, and by the time they are master craftsmen, are too old to enjoy anything but a glass of beer and a snooze in front of the television set. ~That is a'lot of crap, and one of the worst purveyors of it is R.J. Needham, an occasional columnist with Canada's self-boosting title of Canada's National Newpaper, one of the great misnomers of the century. If a man bites a dog in Toronto, it's front-page stuff. If a dog bites a man in the Yukon, or a halibut bashes a fishing-boat in Newfie, that's a little "amusing" paragraph on Page 18. - '"Mad dogs attack natives," "Crazed monster fish smashes dinghy; four killed." But back to Needham and people like him. When he began his column, then daily, I liked it. He was good for an aphorism, or two. He had a refreshing attitude * toward women and young people. Some of his fairy-tale analogies were delightful. He got out and talked to kids. He thought they were great and their straight middle- class parents were all wrong. He has changed almost completely. He now thinks most young people are bums, that Canadians have no spunk left in them. He goes on and on about how he's never been out of a job in his life. He quotes the Wall St. Journal and most of his wit comes out of Barlett's Familiar Quotations. He carries on his fiction that there isn't a male in Canada with any sense of gallantry, humor or courtesy toward the opposite sex. He makes snide remarks about homosexuals, and gives the general impression that he'd like to see the cops out with clubs, keeping "order" by bashing anybody who protests against anything. I have singled out Mr. Needham, but he's only a symbol. I once heard him say that no poetry had been written worth reading since Tennyson. That's because Tennyson rhymed, you see. I gave him the appropriate one-word answer, and he had the grace to back off a bit. But what I am getting to, and it's taking me a while, is that most of the young people in Canada, and their elders, are willing to work, and want to work, but they don't want to be slaves or blue-collar workers necessari- ly. They want to be independent. They don't want to say, "Ah, so!" when the boss says they are going te get a wage cut; or "Bitte schoen" when the boss says they'll work Sunday morning, or else. This is brought home to me time and again when I meet former students sweating away as waitresses or laborers so that they can go to college, instead of lying around on welfare or unemployement or bumming off their parents. Oh, sure, there are some who do. But they're bums, and they always will be. And there are plenty of them in other countries. And always will be. But parents are smartening up, and saying, *'Out, or get a job." Ulis tightening up, and about time. Welfare is being cut back to those in real need. But most people want to work, and are happy when they are working. I've seen an excellent example in the past couple of weeks. A construction company has torn our street to ribbons with their huge back-hoes and front-end loaders. These guys are mostly young. They work like dogs, but there's nobody going around with a whip to make sure they don't slow down. There doesn't even seem to be a foreman, running around, shouting epithets. They enjoy what they're doing, though it's hard, back- breaking work, long hours, and most wages below $7 an hour (Try to get a plumber or an electrician for that.) They're happy: they're pleasant: they're co- operative. They don't quit the minute it's noon, or six. They finish what they're doing. They don't, as a govern- ment crew might do, stand around with one guy digg- ing a hole and six others watching him. The work they do in an hour would exhaust the average postal worker, teacher, civil servant, in eight. They don't take five coffee breaks a day. They hate some of the things they're doing, but they're happy to be working. And what do they have to look forward to when the job's done, and bad weather slows construction work to a crawl? They'll probably have to go on pogey, to keep their families alive. If that's wrong, then let's create a state in which a guy is told where he's going to work, how much he's going to get, what size accommodation he can have, lots of whips and guns, no right to say what he wants about his boss or the prime minister -- a mass of "happy" workers, producing like hell, for no known reason. remember wh 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 27, 1923 The local Port Perry Fire Brigade is pleased to have recently installed a gasoline engine capable of throwing water to a height greater than the Methodist Church. The Council granted $200 to the Public Library in or- der for the Library Board to purchase the building and "land presently being used. 35 YEARS AGO . Thursday, September 30, 1948 The Port Perry High School Trdck & Field Meet held on September 22nd, showed keen competition with the White Team, lead by Miriam Peel and Murray Lee collec- ting 1117 points to win over the Red Team, led by Eleanor DeNure and Jim Beaton, with 1112 points. The first wedding in the new Grace United Church, Scugog, was held on Saturday, September 18th when Miss Vivian Grace became the bride of Dr. Donald C. Christie. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 25, 1958 While cleaning up the waterfront along the shoreline of the Port Perry Yacht Club, stones and logs were . brought to the surface. Old records and maps of Port - Perry show it to be the past site of the Bigelow wharf, which was used to handle timber on the lake as early as 1854. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 26, 1963 Port Perry's Dr. Matthew B. Dymond was re-elected in yesterday's provincial election, having almost twice the number of votes as his nearest rival, Liberal can- didate Sam Hollingsworth. Messrs. Fred and Franklin Phoenix, Greenbank have reported a loss of two head of cattle to rustlers. 1 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 26, 1968 In order to provide for the increase in demand for electrical power, a sub station with greater capacity was built on Crandleé Street. A table of population figures, showing a total of 2,746 residents in Port Perry included the following break- down: 150 - ages 1 to 3 years; 335 - ages 4-9; 553 - ages 10- 19; 1217 - ages 20-59; 222 - ages 60-69 and 269 residents of age 70 and over. Peter Duffield, liquid packaging supervisor for DuPont of Canada Ltd., Montreal and Mrs. Robert James, an employee of Ideal Dairy Company Ltd. of Oshawa, displayed a new concept in packaging milk. The dairy is putting three 1-quart packages of milk on the market beginning next week. The Boy Scout Paper Drive last week collected more than 14 tons of newspaper for recycling. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 26, 1973 Draw winner, Bill Reid of Oshawa won a new snowmobile through a draw held by the Port Perry Snowmobile Club at the annual "Snowshow '74". Construction began last week on the senior citizens residence, being built for Ontario Housing Corporation on Lilla Street, near the Port Perry Nursing Home. On September 25, the Port Perry Chamber of Com- merce the motion was made to change the name to Scugog Chamber of Commerce. It was quite a rare occasion, when the bridal party of 50 years ago attended the golden anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Hector Hodgins of Prince Albert. Best man from the 1923 wedding John Campsall and maid of honour, Mrs. Luvina Parkin were pictured in the Star with the happy couple. An original wedding photo also accom- panied the 1973 photograph. ~~) Ss "- AG i RT ioe _---- RR an, 2 EA Se rR RE Sa = APA S22 er cm NS >