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Georgetown Herald A Dtvblofi of Hem Newspapers Company 22 Main Streot South Georgetown Ontario C Publisher Page NOV 11 1971 EDITORIAL COMMENT Doesnt Stand Still That a town must continually strive for new Industry Is Indicated in the news columns of this weeks Herald A shutdown of one division of Smith Stone will affect some SO employees tor whom there will be no Jobs after the yearend In three decades with The Herald It isn the first time we have had to print unpleasant industrial news In fact looking back It would seem there are very few of the Ies still operating which were In town In the late thirties Such well established firms as Shoe Brill Hosiery Glen Textiles George town Clay Products Provincial Papers lower mill HarleyKay have dosed or moved elsewhere The casualty rate is even more noticeable as we recall others which have come and gone during thirty years Federal Sales Dolphin Craft Instruments Henry Davis Wood Products Sykes Tool Dcnnlson Manufacturing Avian Aircraft are some which come to mind Of Industrial enterprises or the thirties which are still In business only the two paper coating mills Smith Stone Beaumont Knitting and Apple Products are still locally The Importance of an Industrial ion and of constantly promoting new industr ial locations Is obvious when one reviews history Should Be Changed Sunday wintry chill again pointed the need for a change in date for the national remembrance service This would have been unthinkable before World War for November it had a very special significance the end of World War Today when those who lost their lives in a war and the Korean conflict are in eluded in our memories we would take nothing away from that day in if we changed remembrance day to a more suitable one for Canadas climate There is a practical reason Parading and standing in wintry winds like those on Sun day Is downright dangerous particularly for older veterans who could succumb to And no matter how solemn one should feel as names of men who sacrificed their lives are reviewed man s nature is such that most of those attending the parade are anxious that it end to get back to indoor warmth There would be little opposition if the federal government were to set a day when we could be more certain that weather would not interfere The matter has been discussed at more than one Legion convention without being resolved and perhaps the government Is waiting for a recommendation from this organization Lets hope it appears on a future convention agenda Shades Of The Future Three Georgetown streets will benefit in future from far sighted residents who bought and planted trees on town boulevards recently Those on Baylor and Wilson who planned and executed the project will be remembered by future generations just as those who live in older parts of town remember the well known people who planted beautiful maples and elms in the older sec tions of Georgetown Unfortunately inroads of disease have removed almost all the elms And many maples are ending their lite spans In coming years It will be older residcnls who must hand together to provide for future general ions what they have been handed from the past Nothing enhances a community like trees It may never be possible again to plant the huge giants like elms and maples Modem water and sewer systems do not lend them selves to trees whose roots extend too far afield Tomorrow s trees will be of different varieties but equally important to provide shade and beauty for Georgetowns streets THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE ana town centre has been closed by tire Bill Noble After an swering a call to a leaf ire nearby the Tire chief and Bill Davis went inside the tack of fire extinguishers led tarn to dose the dropin centre Hank chairman of the centre would have dosed or the winter anyway because there no heating system RAH WAY FLAN CRACKDOWN GUELPHRailway police in and area are lo crack dawn this winter on who use their machine and railway tracks Any he tracks this can trespassing under he and fines up to Ad said railway police J J ffaren Special patrols wUI be made and ail of fenders charged The law bant snowmobiles from the and the railway rightofway Tf ROCK WOO Ontario Municipal Board listened lo objections in Rockwood to the of water and sewn in the village and then adjourned until a later dale to hear final arguments from lawyers representing he village and the Rate payers Association After hearing lest against the installation of services chairman B El Smith adjourned toe meeting to an unknown date Although two people in favour of the application both objected to he cost of the proposed system COSTS MILTOVInstallation of fluoride into Milton water supply if it is approved by the electors at a December plebiscite is going to cost Milton more than earlier estimates indicated Figures presented by own works Bruce to last show il in the neighbourhood of to install fluoride facilities Compounding the problem lithe fad that Milton water Is drawn from three wells we at Kelso and two at Walker Ijne MAY BRAMPTON Disciplinary action probably of a minor nature will be taken against students in Brampton secondary school who participated in Friday demonstrations to protest Ihe five megaton blast William principal of Brampton Centennial said a letter will be sent to the home of each student who walked out or classes Friday afternoon And as far as I concerned it will remain on their school record he said BRAMALEA The Fed Liberal Association may be taken to ask about campaign signs hat have not been removed following the October provincial election Township clerk Ken Richardson said this week that there is provision in the municipal bylaws requiring the removal of election posters along township roads some hours after the election result said ihe clerk The said no action has been taken to dale as no one has com plained and the bylaw enforcement officer was not aware signs were still up Look God Look God I have never spoken to You But now I want lossy How do You do You see God theytnldmeYoudldntexIit And like a fool 1 believed all this Last night fromashellhotelsawYoursky I figured right then they had told He Had I taken time to see things You made I d have known hey weren t calling a spade a I wonder God If You d shake my hand Somehow I fed that You will understand Funny had to come o this place Before I had time see Your face Well I guess there much more o say God I met You today I guess the zero hour w 11 soon be here But I not afraid since I know You re here Look now this will be a horrible fight Who knows I may come to Your house tonight Though I warn t friendly to You before f wonder God ifYoudwaitatYourdoor Look Im Mel Shedding I wish I bad known You these many years I have to go now God goodbye sfoca I met You I m not afraid to die It was love at first bile when Canadian recording star Anne Murray met Snowball and the pair of six month old oxen at Black Creek Pioneer Village during some location shooting for Miss Murray first special thu television season Anne IOVE AT FIRST BITE Again which was shown Mondav on the network Block Creek wis used if background for version of Jenny a sing which she does during tin show Miss Murray was nuking friends with own wtien Snowball decided the poncho she was wearing looked too good to resist and took a bite The livestock man at Black quickly rescued the edge of Miss Murray poncho before any damage was done In Ihe Mail Bag Dont Jeopardize Life Property For Sake of a Few Tax Dollars Weve Heard Them All This list of typical and questions printed in the Greenfield Indiana Reporter proves readers say and editors hear he same remarks the con tin Mil over The Reporter editor says the most frequently heard news office cliches are Please put it on the front page Use story Just at 1 have written The club It that way for the scrap book You re Invited to our an dinner tonight this was the third Invitation that week and we wanted a night home There will be plenty free to eat and drink Oh yes please bring your camera How come It In he paper It was Well I t see Will you please go through back copies and car it out for me 1 Just stopped by to talk a few minutes but If you re busy I know you have a deadline but you just squeeze this little item In My husband has never been In trouble before so I don I think his name should appear In he paper I know it son a Sunday but its our annual reunion and someone ought cover My uncle brother Is one of your biggest advertisers and I wss wondering if III try to get my ad In to you before he deadline next time Ifthere room for the picture why couldn they run It on another page Sir fed must write and oppose the views of vour recent correspondent Mr J Kirlcy who protested that this town docs not nerd full time fire lirisade What kind of nonsense he suggesting I winder if tan attach some significance fact that Mr Kirley letter an yards from the fireball Is it likely do think that he would pronounce the same opinions If he lived five mile from the fireball Allow me remind Mr Kirlcy that the Ontario Fire Marsh recommends that a fulltime chief be appointed when the population exceeds with some full Unit fighters added before the ion reaches in This town passed that mark a long lime ago In fact are nearly that loiter figure by now Further to this at tht meeting of February tht volunteer fire fighters submitted a proposal recommend Ing thai fulltime staff In his tetter Mr Kirley states that there are a very few on Council who try lo keep our taxes at a tolerable level and still adequate service to the town Believe me I am as much against but for goodness sake Id as not put lift and property in merely for the sake of a few extra on Ihe tax bill There Is no reason why Mr and all other tax payors in this town should be asked lo pay more than extra lo provide adequate fire protection on a fulltime basis If anyone thinks that tliis is too high price to pa for Ihe possibility of saving a life maybe your own then I claim there is something sadly licking ir lhar sense of moral responsibility spirit and civic pride Mr Kirley claims in his atwehove adtqualescrvicc it present Recent issues of Herald have contained for increased numbers volunteers for fire service Is this itself not a tadd indication that inodtquate service Do not misunderstand me Ian not running down our present volunteers truly Job and are highly commended for dedication I feci that there ton no that it takes considerable lime to assemble all the volunteers when an alarm In din fire fighters will idl that literally every second wiitn getting lo a fin It Is not totally submit that In apartment fire lust week on John St nil tin damage wits estimated at nine families wire Id home less considerable losses could have been reduced if tin in fighlcrs in the scene mailer minutes earlier I thai mv nunused tax pavmenl would been will spent for the had It bun responsible directly or Indirectly for reducing the families rendered from nlni to or ivm less his Idler Mr Klrk slalts thai a town Is like a child II crawl before tan walk Ik presses iht opinion that Is ready to walk litis Is Just about the most ridiculous statement I hint heard In long When may I ask Is a town with a population of considered large enough lo Kress If we are to listen to Mr icy and ilk stagnate ever more Thank some pi around have overcome the Inertia others the sand and decided to and do something for this town Of course we big enough lo walk mltlhl have lo hold on to tin for i first r ik let us feel and trj to If towns liki North ij Smith I- ills id nil with populations is same order is Georgetown h up that it is to their to full time fin n wlnt mikes in It Tor f r ns nan in Idlers have not it in imreising tendency In published letters to make a P rl on numbers of Council If one disitrees with the decisions and pinions if there are more effectual waysof pulling without resorting to ihe sarcasm unci asinine remarks such cscint in the latter half of the last paragraph of the letter which reply Yours truly Pinged by Pellet From Pol letter A charter member Italian Count Board or Education George has established himself in the fcruc class as dispenser of quick wit lbs fellow trustees have long known IJodnar ability to liven the dullest of board with a comment Following he presentation of the Art Owned report Hoard of Education recentlv Illicit who si with I lie council told the lie advice he gave he council was lo keep their brief brief I thought d get them to recommend that every student in the county be taught how to draw a picture of a cow kidded who owns a firm in North Burlington 1 once heard of a man who drew a picture of a chicken I looked so real that when he ihrcw it in the here it laid letter shot back Turning Back Time GENERAL ADAMSON von imlleid that town lliu In It s mimed after mitral tin Honorable who owned tin mill tin of tin llllh thin if i had served us a cot mi I In the Iurtugesi fighting In like Itodrigo and during Uclllngliin a pin In offensive Napoleon Fir military the Portugese govtrnmetil made him a Knight Hie Tower sword and Ihe awarded him land In western Ontario When he out to Upper Canada he bought land in where lie he purchased the inilliiiNorvnl He leased It to and Company In thiy also ran a In Ihe village III IHili Then General hod mill run by his son In law Mitchell Mit ihell wan a poor though and tin was soon taken over by the Bank of Ontario until Itohcrt Noblt bought It In tttiKral lived for some time In and built a large brick home there He served for some time in ihe Legislative Council the Upper counterpart lo the House of Lords until It was disbanded In iwi Later he turned to Eriudalc and he is burled in Peters there SMILEY When Man Went Willingly to War As the two great wars of this century move gradually out of memory and Into the pages of history books our annual Remembrance Day recurs with alarming rapidity for the veteran There was nothing great about either of those wars ex cent for their sire Yet the old sweats call their war the Great War and the middle aged sweats have to settle for Ihe title World War The name of the day has been changed from Armistice Day to Remembrance Day A good change But I glad they haven t changed the date November is an ideal time to remember II usually cold wet and gloomy he skies seem weep at the folly of man It difficult conceive or hearing those hallowed cliches fallen comrades In Flan ders fields the poppies grow At the going down of the sun and In the morning we shall remember them lest we forget on a hot day In July But I not being sardonic when I refer to hallowed cliches They are cliches but they are also hallowed and they mean a great deal to the men and many women who gather once a year to remember that the cream of Canadian young men In Iwo generations was skimmed off by a brutal fate on faraway fields II hard believe in these days of burning of draft cards of draft dodging that In hose two great wars Canadians went not only willingly but In most cases eagerly to fight In a war miles away against an unknown enemy for hazy reasons least with hindsight reasons were hazy But at the time they were crystal clear The Kaiser was out lo destroy the British Empire Good enough Hitler was out to stomp across the civilized world in jackboots Clear Let slop the sods We fight to subdue anyone as the Russians Ger mans Japs Italians have done We weren out to conquer new territories We were out to prevent someone from subduing us or conquering our territory In both wars there was a minority who Joined up for leu than heroic reasons to get away from a nagging wife to avoid the law to escape a boring job But in the first great war Canadians literally flocked to the colours swamping recruiting offices In that war they showed a dash and elan and fortitude once in action that made them respected throughout Europe id especially among the enemy And in the second despite the disillusion of the depression despite the cynicism of the Thirties perhaps the most war generation of this century hey did it again And once again hey proven themselves beyond a doubt as doughty warriors on land sea and In the air Personally I didn exactly dock to the colours Both my brothers had Jumped In early That dldn t bother me I was a product of he cynical Thirties a university student and I laughed at them as they went through endless months of dull training while the war In Europe was a stalemate But time came The Germans broke through Civilization as we knew it was in danger of being tamped Into the mudby the Jackboots That was when thousands of us slopped sneering at the phoney war and took the oath Looking back I shake my head wryly as I remember how desperate we were to get killed It was a traumatic experience to be washed out of aircrew where your being killed were fairly good and wind up washing dishes at manning pool safe as a sausage We knew what we were doing In some instinctual way We wanted to come to grips 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