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georgetown herald rumihd ky horn nmnn umimd 21 main tlrmt gaoroalown ontario page 4 thursday january 19th 1967 editorial comment centennial celebrations start saturdays christmas tree burning first of a tones of georgetown centennial ctl orations was a huge success and the or ganizing lions club and the others who shared in the event are to be congratulated on the arrangements a huge crowd was on hand to witness the ceremony a first in georgetown though not uncommon in many other communitlai preceding the giant bonfire whiskered town councillors handed out centennial hashed- up holiday the onetime celebration of sir john ta macdonalds birthday last week was a somewhat hashedup holiday unfortunately the birthday was not a memorable one the 152nd nor is a school half holiday exactly a stirring tribute to a man who is considered the architect of con federation the schools cooperated in some cases by stressing to students the reason for their half day off but would it not have been much better to forget about the holiday have an assembly period with emphasis on canada s history and make a start at put ting sir john in the same perspective as too many frills wall to wall broadloom in a london public school seems to us to be the final stage of foolishness in today s affluent soc iety where the taxpayer seems to hove be come resigned to contributing a targe slice of his salary to every whim of those who should know better todays schools are like many of to days homes designed with tittle regard ior our climate large expanse of windowsjoes rot suit our winter extremes of cold nor our summer heat and leads only to the double expense of drapes new types of floor co verings have never equalled the old wood en floors which had some resilience to ease the aching feet of teachers and provision of expensive parking facilities in city schools for staff members is a luxury which few other workers enjoy we dont mean that children should souvenir pins and appropriate words were said by tha mayor centennial chairman and lions president the olympic idea of carrying the torch to the tt from cedarvele community cer tre was in added touch of pageantry which made an impression with the crowd if future events are as well executed and at well received by the public 1967 will be s truly memorable year in george town s history the americans do for lincoln and washing ton a ichool holiday is somewhat of an anomaly anyway in world where educa tion is supposed to be the most important single factor we era prone to give students a hot day on the slightest pretext even to consid ering a day away from books as a reward for scholarship if we really value education so highly wouldn t it have beertbotter to add an hour to the school day or have a special session satrday morning end impart a bit more wisdom into these young heads not have the best education possible and many of today s innovations have their place but while education cost has become a favourite whipping boy for the politicians they pay only lip service to it while more and more unnecessary and oftentimes fool ish frills continue to make large dents in the taxpayer s pocketbook an idea being propounded by hamil ton and burlington to make pensioners exempt from education taxes will only add to the already crushing burden which we have brought on ourselves by recklessex penditures ori education with less people to foot the bills the average man is going to be hard pressed to balance his budget and will be paying through the nose for the soalled free ed ucation which is supposed to be one of canada s privileges oanamlbblfttn mnuary 1t its ammays tasc f nl loo no t nonsenss man of the century wouldnt it be fun if we could conjure up from their ne glected graves sir john a and the other fathers of confedera tion end take them on a tour of the nation they tied together 100 years ago with string and sealingwax would the tbink they hae bullded well would they swell with pride over the nation that has emerged would they look with awe on what has been ac compliahed or would they cry ss with one voice letnme out a here what have you done to our glorious dominion the physical changes in hhosc fjlfty4tpdrf r f in in the mail bao labour leader adds to quarry problem letter january 131m7 oajrvill oat dear sir further to my letter of dec ember 30 i960 which was published in last weeks edition of your paper in regard quarries in north helton per- salt m this elaboration there is no doubt that soma people read more in my latter than was actually written broufht into the picture third dimension which ia the worunf force of the quarry operations naturally the quar ry workers have families and due to this fact e greater nun bar of residents are involved there can be ne doubt either that the unorganised labourer in be quarries may make less money than the organized one where labour organizations ex m oreruma la also involved but in this ease the earnings are considerably abova the 95000 mark which i had used for average figures only i would like to mske it abun dantly clear that i did not xlrfor management and that i did not consider my latter of being ttt defence of man meat policies management has its own means of communlca tion and moat certainly has not chosen me as a media i again state and this is in the fore front of my litter of december xh lose that the parties must get together to solve the problems confronting them worthwhile endeavor enypuca end anywhere a socially ceptable solution sauat be found which will appeal to all parties tn regard to wasting- ef which i haws said nothing pre- eat that i do not recommend beery bleating nor do i think e heavy blasting is one must not reside ntar by to estimate the effects if auch heavy blasting has or will dam age burrounding homes of quar ries and will influence the well being of the residents the quarries should offer restitu- tion to such residents and home owners without tha costly retort to legal action by such sffeoted residents if blasting is not acceptable other means of extraction would bav to be found by the operators this i actually indicated as a procedure by saying and i rep eat from my previous letter quarry owners will have to re form to residents wishes and residents will have to look with e bit of common sense to the quarry operations laws may be the final ans wers but mesntima someone must mov to get the parties together before employing ult lmate alternatives sincerely yours tha faraway intruder q g harm larger and more ugly i have seen bulldozers push dirt rocks and trees over the edge of the embankment to roll and fall where they may to drive down 401 and see the unsightly craters on the mountain makes the town of milton at tha foot seem very uninviting you can sea that the people who operate the quarry have no pride in their county or in our community with tha kind of countryside wa have around milton it should be the most beautiful for miles but the only time milton quarry property looks beautiful is in a hesvy fog j vanderschot in thi mail bao in thi mail bao doubts quarry lands to be beautified ilk 1 milton ontario dear sir i was surprised to hear the quarries have plane to beautif y their rubble heap if th quarries acre any re hebuttation plane they are keeping st e very close secret especially hilton quarries says main st lighting was christmas fairyland os harrison ave gualph ontario january 0 1967 dear sir i would like to taka this op portunity to congratulate tbe town of georgetown my old borne town which i em ceedingly proud to mention for their most impressive gbristais decorations on tha main street sundsy night was tnat first time i bed aeen these decorat ions since tbe light standards were erected and it seemed to me that we ware driving through e christmas wonder land through town again please accept congratulations on s job well done i have seen many towns at christmas but thii tops them all mrs calvin miller end see a pile of twisted trees end broken rock that keeps get ting worn the scan only get paris wes designed by gustsve eiffel for tbe international ex position ef 1886v sugar and spice by dill smiley 100 years of what the human span would surely impress them the vast towers of steel and concrete in our cit the ribbons of road and rail that span the continent the st lawrence seaway and surely they would be thrilled bythe ast technologi cal leap made since ihcy stood together for that stiff portrait in charlottetown they would be dazzled by the simple facts of electric light end power flight by jet liner radio tele vision the telephone the auto- mobilc oil heating airconditio ning and a thousand other things we take for granted but how would thay fel ab out the country they- created af ter the fancy wrapping came off the toys after theyd wen the toronto city hall and flown cross the country in a few hours and plunged into the bo wo it of a modern mine and gone up in a chair lift at jas per and faced annihilation in a montreal cab and gropectfor their drink in a gloomy cocktail lounge behind the glittering plrv things would they really find much change in the countrj not at thh time of year am waj it would be still a sham bltng geographical monster buried in white tall turned to the north wind only a spnnk ling of lights a few curls of smoke and a few ants crawling about would suggest it was not straight out of the ice ages and if sir john a and his fellows lifted that familiar blanket of white and peered un der it would they be surprised and delighted by what they saw would they perceive a mature virile independent peo ple proudly proving that the twentieth century belongs to canada one look would reveal a mat eria prosperity and comfort be yond their dreams but it would show that a lot of other things they were familiar with had not changed or improved la 100 years fear of the us news icrmjks from the heralds of 10 end 20 years abo 10 tiam aoo county progressive conservatives will meal friday to choose a successor to the late sybil bennett q c m p to represent the party in the next federal aectipn can didates are sandy best georgetown pov g loclthart royal norvat and mac sprowl acton formation of a georgetown volunteer ambulance ser vice moved one step closer monday when council accep ted the offer of a volunteer committee and appplnted stan allen fred harrison and garfield wcgllvray to asiiy in setting up the system f formation of two home end ichool assocclatlon were completed monday when parents of pupils at chapil street and wrlggfsawortrr schools elected officers at meetings in their respective schools mrs joe emmar- son wes elected president of the chapel street group end roy hansen president of the wngglesworth alio- elation 20 ytfars aqo 0 walter skip sargent waft elected mqyor of george- towns teen town when elections by ballot were held in the old town hall friday dec 20 the si council members elected are toots mufphy margaret sargent peggy kelly ken mendham clifford taylor and clare burns the royal bank of canada will open a branch in geor getown on saturday branch representatives were in town to make an offer to purchase the town s municipal building at the corner of main and mill streets the town purchased the building from the bank of montreal in february of 1943 for 11000 corruption in high places french and english canadians wrang ling dirty fighting at ottawa the taxpayers being bribed with their own money the nch get ting richer and the poor getting children a familiar world to the fathers but tha sorrow might change to horror whan they looked be yond the familiar things and saw that tha healthy looking body was riddled with disease the pollution of air and water would make them furloui the soaring rate of divorce drug ad diction homosexualism alco holism would appal them the number of dead on the high ways each year would sicken n the power of huge mon opolies would frighten them and the apathy of the average wellfad canadian would dis gust them no wed have to divert their attention quickly and turn il to other things that would dazzle them perhaps theyd be im pressed by some of our great cultural traditions developed since their time like the grey cup game when lie punks and the drunks take over or hock ey night in canada one of our great national customs when this entire sprawling nation it linked together into a warm friendly group of idiots rising as one man to fetch another beer when the commercial com en on maybe they d enjoy a tour of one of our new atomic energy plants but i wonder what theyd think of the pictures of hiroshima we could tell them what we did in the two great wars but one look at the tax bill for de fense would give them apoplexy and so it would go person ally i think that after the ini tial novelty wore ojtf sir john a and the fathers more in sorrow than in anger would re turn to where they came from without ever taking a look back business directory the centennial song the official recordings and sheet music of can ada s centennial song entitled canada are now being released acros the country written by band leader bobby gimby and arranged by ken mcpeek of toronto the record version uses allcanadian talent since the song will be sung and listened to many t mes during this 100th anniversary of confederation it might be a good idea to clip the lyrics below end memorize them cana da ca na da one little two little three canad ans we love thee now we are twenty million ca nr da four little five little six little provinces proud and free now we are ten and the territories sea to sea north south east west there ii be happy times church bells will ring ring ring its the hundredth anniversary of con fed er ation eve ry bod y sing to gerh or ca na da un petit deux petit trois canadiens notre pay ee pays maintettant nous sommes vmgt million cana da quatre petltes cinq petites six petites provinces long ue vie et nous sommes dix plus terrrroires long ue vie hurray vive le canada three 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