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The Free Wednesday April MiniComment A Winnipeg family volunteered to live a per cent Canadian life for three weeks as a project by the Financial Post Magnrinc The result You go to work naked and riding a but you save money The Kings found transportation clothing and reading material the biggest problems because there is no such thing as an allCanadian motor vehicle Canadianmade clothes just don t compete pricewise and home grown literature Is pretty sparse The bright spot came when the family went shopping By buying all Canadian groceries and household goods the Kings made some real savings up to per cent and per cent on some items Total savings made by buying Canadian per cent or on a 50 grocery bill Proving It pays to shop Canadian except for those things which arc not made here It also illustrates we all have some amount of interdependence on trade with other countries Trade is a two way street If we do not buy Imported products other countries won buy Canadian products Beware of the politician who promotes pie in the sky He plans to use your dough Statements by the owners of the Boston Bruins and the St Louis Blues really indicate how much interest H L teamowncrs have in the patriotism of their Canadian players They absolutely refuse to let players sign for the proposed Russia Canada matches in September We would like to see the players thumb their noses at their American bosses and play for Canada anyway but doubt if any of them will Acton needs a sidewalk sweeper similar to the machine used on the roadstocleanupthewintersdebris or perhaps a by law making it mandatory for property owners to keep sidewalks along their properties clean It is too much to expect town workmen to sweep all sidewalks in town by hand Comparing tax rates in nearby towns and townships the picture is almost identical Georgetown s tax rate remains same Milton experienced a slight cut in the mill rate Esquesing a small increase while Acton s residential rate also climbed a small 3 mills But everyone will pay more taxes than last year because the provincial Government has dropped the tax rebate system used in the last few years for a scheme which will enable ratepayers to claim a rebate on their income tax form in 1973 The new system still robs Peter to pay Paul and loes much of its value in the transfer Tax increase big enough SPRING IS FOR THE BIRDS and also for children Parks employee Don Price positions one of the birdhouses donated by Acton Woodcrafts to the parks and recreation committee The birdhouses will be scattered throughout trees the park Below Donna Cameron and Douglas Weaver took advantage of a brief warm spell last week to do some skipping Temperatures haven been quite so high this week Photos by Gibbons Our readers write Christian heritage not playing church Sir Our nation was founded on the Christian heritage What is the Christian heritage It is not Just playing church It is accepting Jesus as Savior for our sins Our sins have separated us from God but through Jesus who died and rose from the dead we can be reconciled to God But do we ask God to forgive us our sins and in humility seek the will of God Do we even care or are we like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who didn t care and t listen to God and God rained down fire and brimstone and destroyed their city Are we always trying to cover up and blame others for our own faults 11 Chronicles 7 If my people which are called by my name shall humble them selves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land Our land certainly needs God help and God can and will help us if we Christians humble pray seek the Lord and turn from all our wicked ways We have made our homes cars money jobs family pleasures entertainment and our own rights all more important than God Rev 16 Because thou art lukewarm spue thee out of my mouth John Him that to me I will in no wist cast out 1 Chronicles serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord all hearts and underslandelh all the imaginations of the thoughts if ihou seek him he will be found of thee Many books have been written in hope of proving Jesus untrue but in research it has always been proven the facts of the Bible ore true Jesus was he did lite on this earth and all the facts about him are true Jesus also rose from the deed and still Is alive John I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be Art we Let wake up Christians Let obey God word by humbling ourselves before bod praying from any wickedness In our lives us come to God and ask him to move across our land Let us come to God and ask him to awaken us and to draw us closer us open our hearts and lives to God and ask Him to fill us with His Holy Spirit Let us yield ourselves to God so that He can really help us lt not lose out on God promises due to hardened hearts Concern about mobile homes Dear Sir elected representatives should think well and think deeply before granting a licence for a mobile home site in the area of the line and 15 Side Rd Mobile home sites or trailer camps like wrecking yards are very hard and costly to shut down once they are established Once such sites are designated successive owners are apt to forget the good Intentions of the original owners and the licence to operate is at a premium It la true there are some beautiful mobile home sites in the there are also some dumps Some of the pitfalls of mobile borne sites are as follows A site is difficult to designate as for old folks or for adults only You usually Invoke charges of discrimination This area is very handy for the whole of the Golden Horseshoe that means transient workers seeking places to park mobile homes Many of these workers enjoy summer work but winter during strikes etc they wind up on the welfare rolls Such a site could also attract the undesirable element that follows the racing circuit I mean the legitimate sportsman 1 to those who live by their wits the conmen etc I think our council members should talk to their counterparts In areas where there are already established mobile home sites and weight carefully the pro and cons Wm A Johnson THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editor Office importance of new assessment to tin town Is demonstrated by thi mill rnlc Acton Council net nt a special meeting Although It showed a slight Increase thi new rule does not show nil Ihc items council hud Mash Almost In extra coils thin your has no assessment to the Increase 11 is ironic Unit in a year the town experienced tin li nit growth the provincial government should di to cut off the reside ntijil lux rehnU Hi Is meuns taxpayers could expect at leant extra Jolt no matter win re council decided the mill rate should presuming of could not a drop In order to keep the mill rate at a modest Increase council felt obliged lo slash almost all the and It hurt Bluest blow won experienced by the rccruillon mlllce which hud the figure for community centrocut by Si and lopped off the sum anticipated using for repairs I Ik general public Is probably not fully that education and county over which the council has no control accounted for more than half lux bill I took 3 of the mill rate and the county look a total of mills out of a total of DO theoretically a council has control over the rent or the mill rate but there tin matter of debenture payments amounting to which chums Home more serious erosion of amount council can spend all the variables and the added shock accompanying bund on mint of the provincial residential tax rebate we fee council made a wise decision limiting the tax hike to fl residential and 7 commercial and industrial Canadian impressions Canadians who may wonder what impressions of our country American visitors have after they encounter rudeness or ignorance on the part of some may be assured at the same time Unit courteous friendly people create a good impression of Canada and Canadians Proof of this is evident in a letter the Department of Tourism and Information received from some United States citizens who vacationed in Canada We print the letter to prove the point Dear Sir When we left Pennsylvania we were three families pulling trailers and heading toward Niagara Falls and then on to Algonquin Provincial Park Somewhere in New York State we lost one family When we crossed the border at Niagara Falls we asked the Canadian guards and they did everything they could to help us Teachers are lambasted from all quarters these days poor things As a species they arc practically harmless Hut then is not that one of the immutable laws of our society Attack the harmless and tread warily with the powerful and the ruthless According to Iheir critics all they arc interested in is more money This of course is not true of plumbers policemen doctors and dentists lawyers and even Indian chiefs garage operators tl re interested In more money at least enough to keep up with the galloping living index But it s a lie that money is nil they arc interested in ma only Is interested chiefly in doinf well what they are supposed to do educate our And I con blame them when they get a little sore at the constant usually ignorant heckliru of people who don t know what it all about Nor can I help feeling a certain kinship when some of the more militant younj teachers start talking about strikes and such A can go on strike a teacher can The eludes me the whole business bothers me very iitlle personally A man who has been LhroufJi a war and a decade as a weekly newspaper editor has developed a pretty skin But there is something a little sinister in the growing influence of politicians on education for purely political reasons And I feel tremor of alarm when I sec a few responsible daily newspapers frothing at the mouth when the simple word teachers emerges 111 lo them we knew our friends were safe and managed to find them and continue our trip to Algonquin Now to the reason for my writing this letter Algonquin Provincial Park to you and your fellow countrymen for preserving the beauty of the pines the sweet of the feras the untouched beauty of nature her best We are city people Before now my children had only seen bear deer and other large wildlife at the zoo Now they have seen them in their natural where God had intended they be My children now have experiences and memories to last a lifetime To end my letter I have a small list of Thank To the border guards the lady with the Irish accent at Killamey Lodge for her friendliness and hospitality Bi Smiley Iain grinding no axe Intact I even have a hatchet for chopping kindling I lost it Hut it appears to me that a few M characters have put their nted Iliads together and decided to destroy deliberately our educational system when you and I went through it did was for from perfect But it needed reformation not defamation It required healing medicine not mad massive surgery Die first political step toward chaos occurred when many of the local school boards throughout Canada lost their autonomy The Boards were made up of men and women who would bust a gut literally to get the best possible education for their own local kids It was far from perfect but it worked Then the provincial governments decided this was archaic Of course It was So is the Bible So is democracy So is the conceiving of children Next step In Ontario for example county school boards were formed Ad were appointed who knew At the same time we can understand the frustration of Councillor Peter Marks who for three years running has seen the rccreotion committee budget slashed His understandable reaction is that council has no faith In their appointed body when they make wholesale slashes in a budget they spent considerable time with Councillor Marks would like to see the town take the bull by the horns make one big mill increase to look after all the deficiencies being created by the lack of tax money This could be a valid move If the provincial tax rebate was not abandoned but under the circum stances would create too much of a burden for taxpayers in a given year Finance chairman Reeve Frank has Indicated that the town will experience a much needed assessment hike in because of the surge of building This should help the situation In 1973 But will go down as not even being a good caretaker year To the park guards at Mew Lake for their care and supervision To the friendly old man at the Logging Museum who patiently listened to my 4yearold sons jab bering and gave my daughter a piece of a log Believe me they won forget him Lastly to all the wonderful Canadians who treated us with nothing but warmth and love We have wonderful memories of Canada and her people Please believe me when I tell you Canada has won a particular spot In our hearts We shall return again and again Thank you Sincerely Mr and Mrs W O and family 801 Grant Road Folcroft Pennsylvania nothing of strictly local conditions In many cases not all the school boards became mere rubber stamps for the admtnlstritors The latter in turn work hand in glove with the provincial Department of d It In turn is rcponslblc to the party In power A nice little ring So who is running what When this was first proposed I prophesied the result increased costs decreased efficiency And I take back not a word of it Ask any teacher the government with pious rec after a period of spending untold millions on education and almost suggesting that everyone who makes it in Grade I should graduate from university takes a sidelong look at the taxpayers and decides to play Jack the Giant Killer Via spending ceilings on education don seem to be any spending ceilings on health or welfare But out of one side of Its mouth through its tame of Ed government says Let s have more innovative daring relevant courses for our students Out of the other side it says Sorry we can t af ford that or that or that Something stinks To me it docs Oh well let raise the taxes on booze and smokes and build some more highways and airports Let raise tuition fees and cut down on government scholarships and maybe the universities won be so crowded And let get out the whips and show those ungrateful teachers where they belong buck in the cages Back Issues of The Free Press Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday May At ton sewage system is in operation Motors to hum pumps to work beean to low and engineers watched as the lever of progress was pulled setting in operation a system that has been more than two years In building Upheaved streets trench cave ins delays of planning and meetings were ended as the system Lakes over its task Superintendent of the will be Jack Iunbert The deepest manhole in the system is located at the corner of Knox and Maui a depth of feet The system has been referred to as the best in Ontario Acton council accepted the resignation of I rank Crump as assessment commissioner Wednesday afternoon in the mothers withered with a group of excited young children to mark the closing of the first season of nursery school The mothers presented the ladies who directed the school with cups and saucers Mrs D Price Mrs Fred Hunter Mrs Hilliard Price Mrs Wdds Mrs Aubrey Mrs J McGlodrey Mrs J Hurst and Mrs Graham The seventh annual At Home of Junior Farmers was held at the Brant Inn In the receiving line were Mac Sprowl county president and Miss Joanne Julian Work started this week on a new addition at the rear of Acton Home Furnishings store Token the line of the Free Press Thursday April It is very gratifying to the firemen that all citizens so willingly lend a hand in getting the apparatus to fires that occur in town fins was manifest in the case of the call last Monday when trucks and cars freely offered to draw the apparatus and the speed thus attained in reaching the scene was greatly Increased The busy hum of motors on the second line v as welcome on the cars of the farmers for whom it meant dry roads and fields The members of the Ruth Nelson Mission Circle gave a very impressive pageant representing the appeal of the nations to Canada for the gospel The various repre- Lives in costume were Hazel McDonald as Canada Olive Mclaughlin Japan Nelson China Laura Scott India Dons Africa Beatrice Blair American Indians board of missions Helen Anderson Violet Daws Margaret Moore Dons Lambert Minnie Blair Clara Savage lily sang several solos and recitations were given by little Misses Velma Blair and McDonald Miss Bertie Speight the superintendent of the had charge of the very creditable evening ire broke out at the home in Rockwood of W Jago the wellknown glove manu facturers of years and more at Rock wood The building was in the lot at the rear of Peart hardware store The budding was completely destroyed Taken from the bine of the Free Press Thursday Mayf Another newspaper reports that Bros are holding public entertainments with projectoscope and The is an apparatus by which 1 or more pictures on an film are caused to pass through a series of rollers behind a lens illuminated from the rear by a calcium light It Is Edison latest improve ment and has been on the market only three months It costs The apparatus which throws the picture on a screen is placed back on the stage in the rear of the canvas The renders various selections and can be distinctly heard The Black Diamond express hurtles right at you on the The most striking views all purchased of Edison at his laboratory were The Kissing Scene Washing the Feeding the Doves and The Fire Rescue J N Stinson store good red salmon 10c a can com 5c a can pineapples 15c a can nectarines a can ginger map a lb mixed candies per lb Advertisement R Gndpb Just think of it If you want a black dress you have the choice of 117 different materials from the dress goods on our shelves this day This represents a range of prices from to per yard There are no flimsy and trashy materials as offered merchant fakirs Prof Cozens phrenologist town hall Thursday audience was made up largely of Juveniles si