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Home of Hills WEDNESDAY AUGUST A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown IE Ontario WILLIAM Publisher BOB BUTTER Editor Second Clan Mall A heritage to remember This week The Herald la happy to present a guest editorial in recognition of Labor Day Mr head of the Workers in Canada is executive leader of workers employed Smith and Stone Ltd Standard Products and Twin Cee International VicePresident And Director for Canada LAW When working people end their parades or pack up their picnic baskets this Labour Day I hope they will turn their thoughts for a few moments to what this day Is really all about Labour Day is about people working people For those of us fortunate enough to belong to organized labour the day has special significance Its an op portunity to reflect on the heritage handed Town to us by those who buOt the labour movement through per sonal sacrifice and often by having their blood shed But Labour Day must be more than a time for reflection Itmustbea for assessing our present and future roles We have come a long way in a few decades in Canada but we nave even further to go One of the most significant developments of this decade occurred Oct when we stood strong to show the Federal govern ment our contempt for its wage controls program Organized labour a new era in Canada that day We cannot go backward We have shown that we are no longer willing to march to the tunc of the piper who gets his pay from a government thafallows itielf to be co- opted by large corporations Organized labour in Canada now marches to a different drummer And march we must And when I say march I mean we must prepared to stand as we did Oct 1976 and be counted I don mean just on Labour Day either We must be Drenared to stand every day not only for ourselves but for those unable to stand up for themselves for the more than 1 000 people in this country who cannot find jobs for the senior citizens whose plight is ignored by a callous government for those Native Canadians who rights are being trampled and for those too young to speak out That what Labour Day is all about We must march as a force in this country until the cancer that is destroying our economy is cured until every Canadian can regain the dignity that comes with having a job and until the twisted economic planning that has led us to this crisis is exposed for what it la The time has come if 1 may paraphrase the late John Kennedy when organized workers must ask not what their union can do for them hut what they can do for the labour movement and in turn for their fellow Canadians We have come a long way since Oct 14 We have dared to criticize the lack of any rational in dustnal strategy for Canada and to say there is a profound nay a desperate need for restructuring of DENNIS the country industries We have challenged the ok of wage controls as a viable solution to the country s economic ills We have questioned efforts by some politicians in Ottawa to use the issue of Quebec independence as a smokescreen to divert public at tention from the real issues facing the nation a sick economy and disgraceful unemployment We have advocated a viable role for organized labour in bringing solutions to the economic ills facing Canada met with a proposal that would have given us token in volvemcnt and would have made use the scapegoats for government mismanagement We rejected that And if you take the time to examine the evidence you will discover that we have not been talking for the sake of heanng our selves The statistics bear out the truths of our statements Yet if we are to have a con effect upon the crisis facing Canada we must march together and speak with a single strong voice a voice loud enough to shake people out of their complacency Organized labour in this country is moving and it must not slop It cannot stop Labour Day 1977 is a time for ourselves to the challenges that Tie ahead We cannot afford to be com Neither can we afford to conform Nor can we afford to quarrel among ourselves That why I urge you when you set aside those banners or put the picnic basket into the trunk Monday to think about what the day really means to you as a worker And if you agree that we need to ourselves let us stand together with renewed confidence in the cause Let us march together not only Labour Day but every day to shed the economic the government has placed on workers and to search for the economic solutions that will stimulate and provide Jobs for Canadians Let us work together to mobilize the jobless so they can help them selves And above all let us show the skeptics that our heritage was not a hollow legacy but a torch to brighten the future for the human Herd journalismmaking assumptions By STEWART Ottawa rrnu This colli net minister who ahull remain nameless because he mentioned a few details of secret cabinet meetings came along the other day and got an ho subject of herd Journalism Trouble with you people he saying is that once on assumption Is made thai the will do a particular thing you will Join the herd and Hop looking Tor alternatives I asked for examples Well tbcmosiglarlngoneconcernsthat northern pipeline we arc talking Just because various studies favored a route along the Alaska Highway and just because we are going to negotiate the Americans for this route you all assume that the Mackenzie Valley pipeline is dead I argued that there was overwhelming evidence o justify such an assumption After all Ihe commission headed by Mr Justice Thomas was forceful in suggesting that no pipeline be built through Ihe Macken zie Valley for at least 10 yean And was followed by an environmental department which favored a route In ihe vicinity of the Alaska Highway ONE BIDED Then was the ruling by Ihe National Energy Board In favor of this Yukon route and this was followed by another study headed by Dean Kenneth of the University of British Columbia which pro vided the practical details on how construe tlon should proceed Furthermore the parties in Parliament favored the Yukon route along with the majority of MPs If the Americans ore not Interested In the Alaska Highway route said Conservative Leader Joe Clark then that fine That closes the question And after a special twoday debate of cabinet Prime Minister Trudeau an nounccd there would be intensive negotla with the United States for a pipeline along the Alaska Highway I suggested he cabinet minister thai In face of all the and statements favoring the Yukon route and In view of the strident opposition to any disruption of the Mackenzie Volley environment ihere was ample cause to assume the Immediate demise of this proposed valley route Its not nearly as onesided as you think he replied Cabinet was almost evenly divied Ihe two routes and some minister such as Energy Minister Alastair made some very compelling for Mackenzie route He said the Berger report was heavily criticized for Its poetic approach to native lifestyles And there Is a strongly held belief that a Mackenzie Valley pipeline would offer far more benefits to Canada and that construe lion of such a line may be Inevitable in the future I think a good many eyes would have been opened If some of you people had heard our discussions In cabinet In view of the cabinet ultimate decision to negotiate the Americans for a Yukon pipeline the minister says it Is probable that such a line will be built But there Is still a chance that we will go back to the Mackenzie has said that ihe negotiations are going to be very difficult Even though parties want them to succeed they will be tough And its quite conceivable that they will not be successful Thenhewentontosavihat a tot of options We still have the building of a pipeline ourselves one possibility We still have the possibility of delaying any decision we ell you what we II do if the fall If these talks do fall says this minister and there is time for further study and debate would any money we would eventually end up a Mackenzie Valley pipeline he think much of herd journalism Exhilarated but exhausted SUSAN This week finds me In a somewhat exhausted but exhilarated mood I am just now settling down to earth after a happy reunion with on English schoolgirl friena 1 had not seen for years When we last saw each other before 1 sailed into the sunset and a new continent we were impossibly young ifiyenr olds and the five days lhat she her husband daughters stayed with us were barely long enough to catch up on all the whatever happened to reminiscences Do you remember so and so Jill would ask me Yes Well she changed at all and so It went I discovered myself easily slipping back forgotten language put lem luting lift for elevator and biscuit for cookie I must have brewed more tea In five days than was ever lost In Boston Harbour and excitingly enough became a tourist In my own city I found myself rigid with fear speeding up the side of Tower at feci a minute and hen delaying the terrifying return trip You might know that yours truly never too quick off the mark would be the last person on the elevator each lime and tightly sandwiched against the all too fragile appearing glass window I stood barely breathing and with eyes shut menially running over alt my past sins and bargaining enormous quantities of good resolutions should my feet ever step on bcautful mother Earth again The view however was indescribable The Toronto Islands always a favorite place of mine had never appeared more beautiful The gap was filled with tiny sailboats and I realised belatedly the glorious benefits available to a city built beside such a natural playground I fell totally In love with Ontario Place a feeling that I believe must be shared with the real of the population due to the absence of litter This either has lo be an indication of respect there or praise for the young people employed by city The film playing in the Cinesphere The ikies gave me a new perspective on gliding and fresh hope that my son Richard a would be glider pilot may not only survive it but may even know whal he Is doing so incredibly beautiful was the movie As we listened lo the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Forum hat evening a flock of geese suddenly erupted Into flight against a pink and gold sunset providing an duod perfect touch to the setting With only five days to spare my friends did not have to everything our city has lo offer However with their permanent home In England and visiling us at the conclusion of a one year exchange visit to the United States they firmly believed that we as Canadians from the blending of two cultures apparent In the dual signs and supermarket products a well cared for city have the best of both possible worlds I could not agree more It is a wacky but wonderful world we live in By Or Grab your coat and hold on to your socks dear reader we once again depart on a quick tongue In cheek trip around Ihe globe with potpourri Potpourri Is a collection of Items showing once again whohas more fun lhan people on Ihls wonderful wacky world around us First we re off to London England where we discover London England we discover the London Police are searching the streets for a phantom wall smasher who strikes at twilight shattering garden walls with a sledgehammer Police have nicknamed the villlan liar since he has left more than garden walls in a cloud of dust and broken bricks and Holy Sledgehammer Batman Could it be a former bricklayer out of work who has gone and Is taking his revenge out on garden walls Perhaps that a the answer Boy Wonder But we will have to leave case wilh the London Police VI III citizen gone Off lo Lakeland Honda where James Glotfelty decided lo take the Barrett Bonk verbatim on its advertisement hat cuslumers could rent a deposit only peanuts a gleam In his eye look the rental bill he received from the bank and along with the advertise men I he wrapped il around a Jar of pe and presented to the teller But the good doctors scheme I work The hank said cither ante up more dollars or more jars of peanuts Let us cross the ocean now to France where we discover ihe French have a catch all category for divorce called grave injuries One couple were recently granted divorce because he would read all the mystery novels before his wire I them and he wjuld write the name of the murderer it l II Now ask you that about as injury us mystery lover could Back en now as we visit and John Malar who received a birth lay gift from his What so unusual about you ask Well John was silling an the doorstep whi truck pulled up the doors opined and tut stepped Cathy a BOO pound ilipl Jfil Last year brother Sam seal a BOO pound John said is beautiful but I rcilly the rock belter 1 stilt got it in my And Happy Birthday you loo it funny how fur some people will go to gel of wrapping a flight Sam Over New Jersey where Judge Frank J Testa had lo rule on what he called Ihc most unique cube not only In Now Jersey but perhaps in the whole world It seems that the natural father of a child i claiming right mother had given birth what might well be ihe worlds first do- 11 yourself baby The strange details of the case surfaced when the natural father claimed visitation rights even though the baby had been conceived by artificial mini Inn Testa said Even if there have been other cases where women Inseminated themselves I ihlnk I be perfectly safe lo bet every inflationary dollars you have nobody but nobody In all human history has ever used a baby food jar and a turkey for procreation That s right folks you heard what the Judge said a baby food Jar and a turkey Somehow I really can I Imagine It but lhat bit of news makes Vlneland not only Ihc capital of Garden City but the homo the worlds first doil yourself conception kit New York is where those devilish neighbourhood kids played a dirty trick on a sweet Utile 69yearold lady They brought her IS plants telling her to plant them and look after them and they would grow beautiful flowers The flowers never arrived but the police did Ll Michael Gangeml said she had no Idea they were marijuana plants she had them planted i in rent of the house The plants were a thriving feet high when police decided It was lime to cut her grass Poor soul she Ihought they were so pretty Well this week folks a minute someone is giving me hand signals from the hallway I might have known it a that strange cliarjickr the Maharishl Sometimes Yogi and I a funny feeling lhat once again he about to impart words of wisdom on us Remember lhal hough ft Is written to be ever watchful of one who Is always raising thereof ho doesn t have much In the a Ilk He gels beyond bad Surely out there In would like a of their very own Please Passing the time away Queen Park Bureau Or The Herald In any discussion of prominent people here In recent years as have been engaging In the past few days of course gets top rating To date I have mentioned Leslie Black well and Bob Macaulay as two of the memorable figures that have figured In recent decades Their most prominent feature was that both had exceptional flair and left a lasting Imprint on memory Frost was a different type of character Almost the opposite Publicly he was very low key But as premier for 12 years he led the province through its period of greatest physical expansion and made a lasting mark in he history books TWOSIDLS The key to Frost was that he was a master politician And part of his mastery was that he definitely was a man of two sides his public and his private side And they could be markedly different The public side was all smoothness and restraint that of a man of impeccable integrity who one would take as a pillar of a Bui privately he was a man wo could be tough and even a bit rough not a stranger to profanity for example But relatively few people saw this side The poll lie Ian knew he Image he wanted and he was careful to preserve it HAD BACKGROUND Frost life demonstrated once again an early background In politics can be very important In building a career in public life He grew up in a political home and this gave him a poise and a savvy he otherwise would have lacked This showed on the hustings for example In his audiences and he never missed on this there would always be a few localities he would single tor special mention This certainly lose any votes Then he was a great one Tor simplicity doingoway wilh pomp wherever possible and stressing old Man Ontario As such he was not exciting perhaps But he certainly was effective Looking through our files THIRTY YEARS AGO Ha Hon County Health Unit came into being on Sept I Local boards of health local medical officers of health will be replaced by Ihe county wide organization The health unit office Is in Milton The objective of Ihe unit to pros the county with a public health service lhat up until recent years has been possible only in large cities Georgetown Girl Pipe Band which has entertained at the local fair for the post five years will again be an hand with their tar tains while the Lome Scots Brass Band fresh from the Ex where they captured second place In the musical contest will play their way into the hearts of music lovers everywhere in Ihe grounds One of George town moat modern terias will be opened by J Calvin Clark on Street Mr Clark Is opening a groceteria which la an asset to the business life of Georgetown TWENTY YEARS AGO Mayor Armstrong announced the library has outlived Its usefulness as a meeting place and larger quarters will be needed this year Indications are that the municipal meeting will this year be held In Wriggles worth School auditorium Strong objection to a proposed rate increase by the Bell Telephone Co was registered by Georgetown council Monday According to the Bell brief residential phone service here would increase by cents a month for one party service and cents for twoparty service would be cents and SO cents The company said increased operating coats resulting In inadequate earnings have forced it to seek extra revenue of million next year TEN YEARS AGO Council showed reaction and passed the buck to committee to decide on the need for low rental housing In Georgetown A research analyst for the Ontario Housing Corporation OHO told council the OHC would conduct a survey for the need of housing for low Income people Rents would vary from a month for those with an Income of a month to for those with incomes of the analyst said The representative sold the project would re semble the development In Bramalea The possibility of bringing cable tekrl to Georgetown was proposed council Monday by general manager of Construction Co