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Georgetown Acion Wednesday Aug 3 Smiley says you can fight city hall Oneoftbe cynical apathetic remarks of the century la You cant fight city hall I think it a American in origin as are so many of our colorful expression but it re flects a conception that has contributed to the skepticism that permeates many aspects of our life e it betrays a weariness of the individual spirit in a world thai is growing ever more corrupt violent and reach basically that the Individual a chance against the burgeoning bureaucracy Ihe petty patronage the you seratchmy back and 1 1 1 scratch yours philosophy that has always been with us and always will but be resisted stoutly and and sturdily whenever it rears it ugly head Jesus fought the city hall of His time and won though He lost His lire Sir Thomas More fought the city hall of his time which included his king the no bilily and he clergy and refused to nudge an inch to save his life because he right and city hall was wrong Joan of Arc fought her city hall in the traitors to her vision an opposing army She wound up being burned at the stake and became a saint Her opponents are mere in history won his fight and taught British royalty to mind its pees and if you pardon the expression William Lyon Mackenzie took on the city ball of his day and though his only battle with it was a typical Canadian charade he left it smarting could name a hundred others who cocked a snook at city hail and lost many a battle but won many a war The United Stales is a classic example Another Is he Republic of France Ghandi practically had the British Empire begging him to go change his diaper and leave it alone Well it nice to be in the company of such even if only for a little while and only In the Imagination The Fourth St Fusiliers of which I am a proud wounded veteran has fought many a skirmish several sharp encounters and a prolonged war of attrition against the local town council and the will of the people triumphed to the extent of a dozen trees being uncut a new sidewalk In stalled and a desert of potholes turned in to a pavedstreet You ve heard of the Years War the Years War the War of the Roses the War of Independence the Boa War and The Great War followed by that sickening euphemism World War II Not to mention Korea and Viet Nam Well a lot has been written about them and millions died in them but for sheer intensity of emotion 1 think the Fourth St War outdoes them all That the reason for Ihis bit of history In three or four hundred years the Fourth St War may be almost forgotten were it not for some humble scribe to get it down on paper ll has lasted between seven and nine years and the veterans will even argue hotly about the duration do remember that the hundreds of children who were going to be slaughtered by traffic If the town council achieved its insidious ends are now replaced by grand children in many cases I do remember that the first rush to the barricades was about as organized as the French revolutionaries attack on the Bastille I do remember that one lady threatened to chain herself high in the branches of a maple tree if the town engineer carried out bis plan of roassacering maples There were other threats of a similar but unlikely nature such as everyone lying down in blowing town hall white council was In session or kid napping the town engineer and giving him a cementbarrel burial in the bay Fortunately cooler heads prevailed After half the street was ruined works department ran out of money Over the years they tiptoed around the potential explosion filling in odd pot hole and letting the street turn into the semblance of a long forgotten country lane But this spring falsely feeling that the hatreds had cooled with new people moving In and old people dying off they foolishly raised the idea again Cut down the trees Tear up the it a oneblock thru way Like an old dormant volcano the people rose In their might and descended on the works committee like a disturbed hornets nest The air was filled with vituperation caJumn and blasphemj Council cooled off like a bull confronted bv on angry elephant Another meeting was colled Again The People rose in their wrath formed a committee It consisted of a brilliant mathematician a contractor a doctor a Iwlawyer and an indominable nurse Not just a few angry people to be baffled by engineering Jargon I don l want to go into the brilliant counterattack the superb tactics the incredible strategy of The People It too exciting You t sleep tonight But The trees stay the side walks will be rebuilt thethruway will con tlnue to be a residential street thosands of children will not be cut down by thun trucks and the road will be paved You can fight city hall WHIRLPOOL BY INGLIS FRIDGES RANGES DISHWASHERS WASHERS AND DRYERS FREEZERS ON SALE AND NO SALES TAX FAMOUS BRAND NAMES of Brattmora Was Concordhn Strathray Whirlpool bvlngHa White Carpet Steam Cleaning Industrial Commercial Residential For Free Estimate CafiCttaHie 8531846 3 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