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The Acton Free Press Wed April Editorial Put aside blame and anger Eleven tragic deaths in motor vehicle accidents the past month have involved Acton and district people a terrible toll in lost young lives and enduring sorrow for their survivors Quick on the heels of the terrible twocar crash that took seven lives came the accidental deaths of John Van Oosten Allen Kenneth Bouclair and Lynn Jones The explanations if any for each accident are different and it seems there is no use trying to figure out why Why them why there and why just then The town is without them now and will remain so The jury investigating the crash early in March which claimed seven young lives must be commended for their decisions They have tried to foresee how such an accident could be prevented in the future by rec ommendmg car key rulings improved radio communication ponce pursuit policy They t find it necessary to remind anyone about the basic rule against theft Thats an ageold tenet Another point readers should remember when reading about the recommendations is the simple fact that a driver followed by a police cruiser should stop at once if signalled That is no doubt what the policeman expected But the anger and blame result ing from all deaths will bring nothing but festering bitterness if they are harboured for long Feel ings that could poison the future of survivors must be put aside replaced by gratitude for the happy young years these people did have Here comes the dinosaur Toronto subscribers to the Free Press tell us they were surprised to receive two papers the same day a week ago One Free Press was delivered over a week late while the other one was surprisingly early Both came on a Friday Meanwhile the post office is advertising First class surface mail to the USA is now history saying air service will be used instead Newspapers will go their old same overland route The symbol of a dinosaur on their advertisements seems apt to newspaper publishers struggling with the problems of delivery and increasing costs The post office service that was once speedy eff lcient and reliable seems to be going the way of the dinosaur al right Youve slipped baby For all those starryeyed souls who say of women you ve come a long way baby here are the facts Montreal economist Dian Cohen finds from the Women s Bureau that women workers are slipping in the amount of pay they take home as compared with men Although more women than ever are in the labor force one out of every three women are bearing more of the over all burden of unemployment in the past In the clerical field where more than a million women work men earn 57 per cent more than women aver aging yearly to a woman s The salary difference for men here is INCREASING In the service sector men made 157 per cent more than women in 1972 Back in 1967 men service workers earned only per cent more than women Again the gap is INCREASING for men In the sales field things are going from rotten to worse In 1967 salesmen averaged women 292 Srx years later in 1972 sales men were up to 9 while sales women made a whopping 3771 But the gap is narrowing in of women in the professions In male professionals earned per cent more than women By they earned only per cent more than women professionals In the clerical field where per cent of all secretaries and steno are women male earn between 2 and more than women Even babysitting is not sacred The average GO year old male full tune sitter made 5 536 yearly- compared to the woman sitter When men are outstripping wo men at such traditional work as looking after the baby all that can be said for the women of Canada is you slipped a long way baby The effect may affect Effect and affect two words which are often improperly used But in the past three weeks two people have mentioned to us that they have seen them wrongly used right here in the newspaper Oouch We like to think we re very picky about spelling although we know only too well how many mis takes creep into type The people who mentioned our errors are both old enough to have gone to school in the days of rules and drilling Even with rules effect and affect t the easiest to handle Nothing as simple at the rule for practice and practise c for the noun s the verb That applies to license too So one of our sharp critics wrote us a little critique to help us re member A lot of people including teachers may find it helpful She writes Perhaps the following from the Oxford Diction will effect a solution to the pro blem of the use of the words AF EFFECT and the effect may affect the quality of future articles AFFECT v produce an effect on move touch the feelings EFFECT result conse impression v bring about accomplish April drips and drops Spring clean up time is soon followed by summer sitout time Again this year ARC Industries at Hornby is making a business of re webbing lawn chairs It s been a good project for the people who work there and theyre looking for chairs to repair Gail Beerman says people could phone her it getting their chairs down to Hornby is a problem The Sunday before last was picked by population analysts as the day the worlds population reached four billion This very significant event was pushed off the front pages of the dailies by the usual tragedies and troubles But maybe that person birth isn t anything special to celebrate anyway Who can assure that little baby girl or boy of enough food enough room enough work enough years to achieve something ten it good to see more stores up I March came in like a lion and didnt go out like a lamb either JOGGING MADE EASY Michelle and Jones owned by Scott The beautiful weather this enjoy a jaunt in the sun with Star a Shetland stallion weekend made outdoor activities a must Sugar and Spice by bill smiley WIS l USUI 10 llHl 1 l pe rl in hitji it were known in Ihosi as bilious Macks lit ludcd i splitting sloin so jn tin would nothing but hoi liniDn 1 idy of ist tin if Jot with nmn peers is lhiiil tin m would last two or Hi ret days duniiL which 1 would wiihdnw from tin world into whooping pun and dirk oftourst I would sent first to who would mi grunts If I would thai prob ibly in a who dttuk thill I wis ton sensitive fur Hit world ind put nit on 10 I prubibly in idditl We vt tomt i lon w In those diss my mothtr would spend hours stroking thrush anil gently rubbing dp And I would emerge re join Iht worll and ravenously Ltrct the lists il h id bun iried for d or I h id oik of I sim is kid though i if Ibid r inttd would iblj pirillel i nol loo sensitive for world an Inst bilious ott isintully in list or Ami ever the I hive looked iround find it w is the u I zeroed in on it Hit must is caused by tin of university pro fessors concerning the tommiinitilivt skills of today students I hey never put it so simply whil is that wo thirds of Hie ople into tint decent done i tan I express themselves or illy in stand ird English It s Irut of course why do they whimper about it Why do they lr to blame high schools Why do thty accept these students in first phitt if they re not up lo scratch II tell you why II s because they ire so hard up for money they 11 accept any thing that can pronounce its own name mid isn I walking on ill fours Iht hive lowered their own standards even the best of them proliferated courses and introduced Mickey Mouse courses ind highly fltx ihk guidelines in desperate effort to get living corpses their impuses would find that Jot ill got isivciuOas i so is not to Hold him A mark of to inyone in the know mi ans I would find on inquiring Joe had received I in but Hit lu dance department I dked his ilh tt ither into ciiiiiLhim he h id promised he would never until ifiun So ht enrolls in I hive under tht old new sWcms of old was formula of rote It is so muddled it in in ill the sludints knows whit is on Such wmis is effort excellence hive been thrown stile dishwater lbt hut been repl iced flexibility individual choice a learning situation and the creativity the child What poppy What it means is that ivtrvthmi is twicers easy as it was the chance of fulurt is remote and the students ire being shoe horned into an the world is is different from school is Ir icul i is from of Green Gobies Hut all is not lost What the university people and those who would revert lo the old days of lock step regimented fail to realize is that today the schools are at least giving some in siLhl into the human spirit compassion what life is really about to of younc people who a decade io would hue been turfed into the factories dead end jobs at age 16 HI thus one of Ihc good things unemployment There s no room for so they slay in school Itarn something OUR READERS WRITE Fibres can be dangerous body of the scramble for government They century i grants A dozen years ago if you filled a subject in your graduating year in high school you failed your year and repeated it Nowadays you would graduate even though your over all average was and some third rale university called Sir fred McDonald University of the me Arts would sweep you into its folds with little lis of delight And six months the head of the English Department at good old five years Sir Wilfred would bemoan in the newspapers that the college had to set up a course in remedial because it In the 17 issue of the Press w is in irticle m rcftrtntc to i new mp my involved in Hit m of town Initially 1 is pie to set id itlratttd i company hut is I finished re the itlc I bet imi quite Tin rcison fir my ipprehtnsiou w is the list of ingredients use din the manufacture of this be more precise use of ind I specifically w int know is wh it Hit by tins insure Hint llitst fibres are contained and not allowed to esc inlo Hit ilmosplH re of our own It is been proven conclusively thai these two ingredients arc inLerous iens causing agcnls I lecture Livtn Irvine North America s fore most expert on industml he and ind Hie mentioned anil fibre cl wert spttnl attention Asbestos fibres arc v irlually Moil in tin air like a ind die cubit inch millions of these fibres so minute th it the mucus and Imrs Hint line our piss e iniiol trap hue very serious effect on body tells turning cancerous They not only ifftct the lungs but also the digestive Iract the liver I further point out the effects do surface for a twenty to twenty five year lung rays will not disclost Ihe prestnee of isbcslosis and rays can be quite clear and show an ippartnlly hcilthy lung To be affected one does not have to be working directly with these Anyone in the where this floats in the air can and will be significantly affected I now this question what if any ire the have been made to the building Ihit Ihis com piny is to occupy insure that our and in ill residents of Acton are guaranteed the air we breathe will be free and clear of any fibres and or gases thai this company may employ in the manufacture of their products I am bung an alarmist I think the tillens of Atlon art entitled to be made of effects of Ihese fibres should they escape into the air we breathe Sincerely I Johnson Rosemary Rd Acton Two sets of driving rules The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from liisue of The Free Press Aprils IS50 Acton oldest citizen W II added another milestone to his full life on Saturday when he celebrated his birth day After receiving a succession of visitors he is looking forward to more next year when he turns years of ago Roads about town are in terrible con dition and of course those in the new sub divisions arc in Ihe worst condition Even in the older sections of town big chunks of road surface have been lifted and holes left that are treacherous If you re walking the footwear in many sections is rubber ts Yes its bad this spring But old timers who can remember back to the days when sewers were installed five or six years ago can it off as a mere nothing road in town in those days was bad Why this spring nothing to conditions we had in 1950 and 1951 Yes its bad but it been worse Rev Armstrong of Knox Presbyterian Church here for the past seven years will leave later this spring to take over a Hamilton charge A trailer used by workers for the Lake- view subdivision contractor came close to destruction by fire on Monday night when fog was so hick it be distinguished from smoke Firemen were called to the smouldering insulating straw under Hie trailer Mud at the subdivision is so heavy the fire could not enter Instead the pumper was driven in behind garage and a hose line run through back yards 50 years ago Taken from the issue of The Press of 196 Notwithstanding that the outdoor aspect had more of winter than of spring this in no wise dispelled the spirit of joy and gladness and attendance at all the churches on Easier Sunday was large The demand for the excellent manufactured by the Mason Knitting Works requires a larger output than the equipment wab possible to Therefore Mr Mason has purchased a new outfit of machinery at Y A meeting was held in the Canadian Military Institute Toronto which reprc sentativcs from nearly all the veterans organizations in he province were present Purpose of he meeting was to form a provincial section of the Legion to amal ail veterans organizations Anew type of electric car the last word in radial equipment has been placed on the tine of the Canadian National Railway between Toronto ind The motor can haul five regular passenger and can mimtain a high rate of speed Farmers are busy days attending heir neighbours sawing bees The farmers have been hustling in he turnips while the sleighing lasted There is no more popular Canadian writer than Louisa Montgomery author Anne of Green Gables and now honored lo hive this popular writer is a resident She is none other than the matron of the manse of the Presbyterian church in She spoke to Knox Presbyterian young people week 100 years ago Taken from llic issue of The I- Press of Thursday March JD 1H7G It seems there is some doubt this if the proper day has been selected for Easier Sunday Mr an evangelist of the Disciples is holding religious services in Matthews Hall each evening this week Ninety eight loads of saw logs were delivered at Brown and Rail saw mill one day last week making an aggregate of feet of lumber One load of hemlock logs measured 1301 feet Tins docs not much look like a winding up of lumber in Acton The following were the accounts paid bv Acton council II Moore for registration of births deaths and marriages D bread for Minot3 The reeve reported that money placed in his hands for charitable causes was about exhausted that a large portion of the had been doled out to tramps As the winter was now nearly he thought there would not be such i demand on the funds The April Cattle will be held next Thursday Ihe prox Several buyers from Toronto and elsewhere have signified they will be present The roof of Ihe driving sheds at Mar shall s livery stables Milton was crushed in on Saturday by snow completely six buggies and four cutters A woman was found in Ihe snow near Oshawa She turns out to be an old vagrant of vicinity A convention of base bailers is to be held in Toronto when a plan w ill be set on foot for forming a Dominion Assocution I wis wondering if was possible thai Hit re arc one set of driving rules for John Public and another for police officer When I noticed a cruiser parked wrong way on Mill St in the downtown area the other day I w itched to see whal wis about to happen I he officer on duly came out of the Municipal Office have another tax payer shake her finger at him and scold him in a motherly fashion only lo gel a laugh from him In return I thought surely he will back around onto the side street and pull away in his proper I me as he also was parked between Ihe Noway He pulled right out across the line or traffic in front of an oncoming Iruek Now if you or I had been guilty of the same there would have been three chirks igainst us I was always taught Actions speak louder than words I have paid taxes lo this town for over 25 years and sometimes wonder what value am getting for my dollar An I Rate Taxpayer THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Businessand Editorial Office