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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills THE HERALD WEDNESDAY DECE IMS A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown L7G Ontario WILLIAM EVPOKIMOFF Publisher Second Clan Mall Number Who is watching The Helton Board of Education appears to have been caught with its dirty books down It all began with questioning of Go Alice We still maintain that it Is a book that warrants in clusion on high school reading lists When we see however other books as I Never Loved Your Mind and Rabbit Redux finding their way onto school curriculums we get a little wary about just what is sitting on school library shelves The questionable merits of those books we wont bother reviewing What does require questioning is the kind of analysis they and all other books receive prior to their in troduction into regional schools Unless we were mistaken It ap peared that some board of education trustees were feeling a bit uneasy when excerpts of Never Loved Your Mind were read to them two weeks ago by a representative of Helton Renaissance Their uneasiness was certainly Justified We dont believe they realized just what sort of questionable material was in that book Yet the trustees are supposed to be one of the safeguards in our educational system that ensure that the curriculums of our schools are above questioning The boards attentiveness in other educational areas is sharp They keep a close watch on matters such as driver education fees maternity leaves and program council reports But their attention seems to have been rather low when it came to their examination of the list of books that were supposed to be used in this year But the blame for laxness would be unfairly balanced If we placed it solely on the trustees shoulders They are only the final safeguard in the entire reviewing process The trustees are handed an im mense list of books wlthllttle background material on them and from that theyre supposed to draw out any and all unsatisfactory books Reading all books is im possible Trying to read the books that might contain poor language or weak content is too much of a hit and miss proposition The trustees Instead place a great deal of confidence in the decisions of the boards staff Ap parently in this case a member of the boards staff has gone a bit too far in deciding what direction the English curriculum in schools should take The board we hope is asking questions of its staff finding out just where and how the decisions on those books were made The trustees are also we hope taking steps to examine the important question around which this entire revolves what is the role of English course in schools Is it a philosophy course or a course in the proper use of the English language Once that is decided they can then perhaps move onto coming up with a Setter safeguard system to review all books prior to their installation upon book shelves in our public and high schools Queens Park Commentary The Impossible Dream is coming true for the NDP ByDONOHEARN Queens Park Bureau Of Herald Ah they are riding high The NDP are so happy these days you want to get close to them so some of it might rub off And they are ever so pleasant and detached In tbe of their leader Stephen Lewis Is following a careful cool course Ills immediate main objective obviously la to knock down the curse of socialism which be knows will be thrown at him from every angle In the next election campaign And be ia handling this admirably He would get across to the people that you have nothing to fear from us He laughingly confides to the house that his party Is really only pink socialist When there ia discussion of a Davis meeting In New York with S bankers he cheerfully asks And what did they have to say about the The subject didnt come up Times are high Indeed PLAYING IT COOL Underneath It all of course Is a dream The lighthouse finally Is In sight Perhaps they really only trust to think the thought In the dark security of their beds at night but faithful can see themselves finally in power And It Is a luscious dream The Question is on realities lust what are the prospects of it Aa a padre said of IdndhearfeU women of the night they are both good and bad Good In that the party now has a goal that it can suddenly look on as possible Over the years never thought It would soon reach power perhaps not even In our time It may have talked power but It never had a belief In It Its concrete goal has been to outdo the Liberals and become the official opposition But now it has had that sudden turn of fortune a dramatic turn of the scope to change the minds of men It has hope More than hope it can tually see the beacon This means that finally it baa direction a clear and possible goal and prhaps clear path And with this all the benefits direction can give a party as well as a person vitality drive optimism the will to do and tbe will to win This Is veryvery Important to the Its most Important reward from the election Needs To Bresk Jacket Most Important because on It could hinge the partys chances of actually government after that election now some fancyof a politicians mind away On the statistics this possibility would not seem to be at hand The bard figures on the September vole on the cold look show the NDP as most for tunate fortunate to the point of being blessed by the gods This was only more than It got in 1071 Yet It doubled its number of seats from 19 to You have to say that It got every seat possible to it with a few that were im possible And It also probably got nearly every vote of Its possible ballot It reached its success because the Con servative vote switched Liberal because vote was highly concentrated In certain ridings mainly In urban areas and the north because the Liberals tbe party with the momentum peaked out and flubbed the big cities and because the vote was down meaning Its vote packed unusual On these logistics a hard assumption would be that the has arrived at Ita horizon Its basic vote has not Improved and it is a party which has to mainly rely on Its basic vote It hasnt been able to look much to the swings And it bears a stamp as a northern and city party and only special areas of tbe cities at that with little apparent elbow room in the rest of the province It would seem to be playing a notrump hand without aces But then la It perhaps really Into a new deal Can It break out of the tight jockel of cities and the north can It now not only look to adding to base vote but also hope to grab some of the swings A new credibility will or should help it There are some voters probably a good many who wont buy without a seal of ap proval But all important could be the new direction The party workers Its whole effort should be imbued with a new drive And It could be a drive that will take It to port to that home In seat of power that only In rash moments It has even aspired to On cold hard assessment it Isnt probable But It Is possible Viewpoint The Runaways by Gerry La borough This week viewpoint puts the regular column and In the rhythm of the written word in poetry looks at the ever Increasing problem of the runaway the youngster that runs away from homo The following Is entitled appropriately The ways ByG Down on the easts de In a threeroom shock a mother gazes at the cracks She looks around in bleak despair how could she go and leave me here Theres five kids to feed Why the hell did that brat leave home She a still a kid not fully grown thinks she can make It on her own And ye for a moment comes the fear will she be all right Running from what just as hard as she can not woman yet never a child again In a fancy house on the high aide of town a father has the car sent round What with that kid cant he understand we cant be here to hold his hand Theres places to go and people to see for business Important for me And yet that look when he walked out the door a look that said never never no more The father reaches for his Initialed case and the c that shows his social place for a moment he feels tbe fear and wishes that bis boy was near Not a child and not a man running from what just as hard as he can A mother sits with tearstained face dear God why did she leave our place What would moke her leave when wo love her so dear God shes far too young to go We gave all we had we did all we could did wedotoomuchwasitjust too good Were we too strict too hard too soft what more Andshesltaand stares at a closed tight door And yet for a moment comes the fear what will happen to that girl so dear Running from what just as hard as she can no grown not child alone and so young in the world of man A grandma tidies up the floor she tells herself could do no more Since his folks were killed I did my best he was bad from the start thats the truth I guess Lying and stealing and putting folks down always going to the bad aide of town And yet for a moment comes the fear why did he gowhy couldn he be here And the grandma wipes the tears away and stares at the dawn of another day running from what just as hard as he con A father puts the football back and thinks of college and field end track And thinks of the needle he found on the floor and asks God why could we have done more Why why dear Lord with a tear stained face we loved him so what a wrong with this And yet for a moment comes tbe fear will he be found dead will tonight we hear No longer a child and never a man running from life just as fast as he can And all the parents ask the reasons why did we give too much or didnt we try What makes some go while others stay Do they have to run to find their way For life it holds so many fears for both the young and old in years The world can be a frightening place and some must run to keep the pace There never is a right or wrong In why the very young leave home Some are weak and some ore strong for some Its forever for others not long Some listen to a distant drum that only they can hear Some listen to on Inner voice that fills their souls with fear And moms and dads they sit and wait some in hope and some in hate For moms and dads all learn tbe why If they make you laugh theyll make you cry The young must find a place to stand to make their spot In a troubled land To find what they are searching for To find themselves and nothing more On the home front- It pays to advertise about your birthdays By Susan I recenly discovered that assertion plus a little advertising goes a long way Having hit my family a wellaimed blow between the eyes with a column outlining their woeful memories when It comes to mothers birthday things were decidedly different this year In fact it was so Incredibly good that I cant imagine what they will ever do for an encore be encouraged to slip in a couple of extra birthdays each year from now on The greatly desired dinner for two with the surprising bonus of six waiters singing a very rousing rendition of Happy Birthday To You and bearing a birthday cake supporting a simile candle that must have been two feet In height Despite the feet that it was not served someone else had prepared and walking away from a table of dirty dishes knowing they are someone elses problem more than made up for that drawback My husband and I actually talked to each other without having to compete with three children I sat through dinner without once having to leap up to refill a glass of milk scoop mashed potatoes off tbe kitchen floor or sort out who kicked who first under the table All this however waa just a prelude to the real highlight of the evening Once in a rare while for me and hopefully for everyone comes a moment of unspeakable perfection A moment of skyrockets and shooting stars Walt Disney castles and handful of moonbeams world splits on axis and one exists on an emotional plane I was lucky enough oh how weak and ineffectual mere words are to see Tony Bennett live Infull glorious living colour at the Royal York Hotels Imperial Room While I hope at my advanced age that I don t sound like an Elton John groupie I just have to say that this performer Is un believable Now I realize that there are possibly a few people whose toes dont curt up at the sound of his voice but whether your turnon happens to be Bennett Sinatra or Big BlnJ for that matter all that counts la that the moment of magic works for you Due possibly to fact that my husband is also a Bennett freak be moat understanding of tbe they were more tbe size of goose eggs that erupted on me half an hour before show tune Even the sign of his wife rolling on tbe floor and foaming at the mouth aa great man himself appeared In tbe glare of spotlight realty didnt disturb I am sure that had I seized opport to throw Mr Bennett over my shoulder and bead for the nearest exit in a somewhat liberated cavewoman style be would have simply sat back and cheered me on Tony Bennett sang I cried tbe packed crowd surged to their feet shouting for more and for one single hour time stood still How do you ever top perfection Years Ago Gage Stationery opens Prom the Piles of the Herald FIVE AGO Trlxle part chow and part terrier died Saturday at the advanced ago of 17 In human years equivalent of age Trlxle would have been years old was owned by Mr and Mrs Bill Bingham of 23 Georgetown a new Industry which plans to Initially employ over 100 people Gage Stationery Ltd began operations last week In former Manufacturing plant on Todd Road firm will produce text books envelopes and stationery Breaking tbe Ice to enter were scuba divers from who Jumped into the quarry at Waterfalls playground It was an open exercise their first outside of a pool and a necessary part of training But December seems hardly the time of year to begin swimming Television and Appliances has two new owners as of this week Dick DeBoer and Leo Slulk became the proprietors of the store established In 19M by Maurice and the late Ed Wiener TEN YEARS AGO Twelve Years of service to the Chlnguacousy Township Public School Board by a Georgetown man Clure baa come to an end after Mr failed to appear at the nomination meeting held last week Election time has hit Georgetown once again and this year there area total of men running for offices Mayor Joseph Gibbons and Reeve John Elliott seek the towns mayoralty post Deputy reeve William Hunter and Malcolm Freeman are FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Mrs Frank Connely Normandy Blvd was one of 12 Canadians to win a transistor radio first prize awarded in tbe crossword contest sponsored by Aqua Soft Ices limited Mr and Mrs Wilfred QUI resident of John St West Glen William for tbe put yean marked their Both wedding an niversary The date of celebration was tbe actual date of their wedding fifty yean