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The Herald Home Newspaper of Halton Hills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South L703E5 Ontario crip Acton Ontario RICHARD CAMERON TOE HERALD Wednesday May IS ltTI ELECTION TIME Lets Pull For Majority The race is on Canadians go to the polls in July to elect a new federal government hopefully a complete one with a majority to govern The minority government fell last week over of all things a budget the first such toppling to occur in the nation s year history Governments nave lost confidence votes before but never about a budget During the next two months Canadians will have plenty of opportunity to reflect on the track record of the Liberal minority machine It was in- office for IS months and survived of 19 confidence motions Opposition parties will wage a campaign tied in mainly to the economy and inflation it the one subject most on s mind The Liberals probably were not as successful as everyone might have liked them to be in fighting economic problems and they will have to campaign on the issue of credibility For a few prognostications consider these David Lewis will continue to work in attacks on corporate Robert Stanfleld will continue to press for economic controls as applied to prices and wages and the Liberals probably will be returned to office in a power role No matter who gets into office though a majority government would be nice It could rule for at least four years because just like the rising cost of food election costs escalate also Canada doesn t need federal votes every year and a half Fighting For Survival Independent retailers and wholesalers are having to change their habits to stay in business Retail chains catalogue discount and warehousing stores now present a considerable threat to traditional businesses Wholesalers who have managed to avoid being bowled over by mass merchandising have hung on either by buying out weaker competitors widening their assortment of merchandise or selling directly to the public Because retailers frown upon this direct competition from wholesalers the wholesalers rearely advertise directly to the Retailers have been ghting their battles by teaming up in for example cost saving collective purchasing The problems retailers face are high cost of shopping centre rents reluctance shopping centre developers to accept an in dependent no track record high equipment costs and lack of support when their own children can find more rewarding em elsewhere The in ependent retailer is being forced to lose Mb identity by using a group name in many cases They are faced in addition with a push by the National Retailers Institute for stores being opened weeknights Monday to Saturday instead of just Thursday and Friday The is being opposed by smaller shops which say the costs of staying open more hours would cause their demise Many food stores were also fatally harmed by the discount pricing of the supermarkets Chain food stores and large independents with sales of 000 or more per year now account for close to per cent of retail food spending Although the rent in shopping plazas is often a barrier to entry for an Independent retailer shopping centre developers are eager to include the cream of the local retailers because they are known in the local community and provide local color and flavor Often local independents have eater sales revenue per square at than national chains There are however a number of hitches for independents who want to go intoplazaa First there is the rent usually per cent per cent of sales There is the natural willingness of developers to accept a newcomer instead they want a person who has at least one sue cessful local store Then there is the problem of finding experienced staff since the cornerstone of an independent s success is personal knowledgeable service Finally an independent retailer may have difficulty setting up a store in a completely new site Death Wish Is Strong Since mandatory seat belt legislation was suggested as a possible consideration in the current session of the Ontario Legislature newspapers across the province have been receiving letters voicing opposition not only to legislation but also to seat belts themselves The majority of the ob jections indicate to me an unreasonable irresponsible at titude on the part of uninformed writers says Terry Thompson Public Information Manager for the Ontario Safety League He has been collecting newspaper clippings for his files since the Throne Speech mentioned possible legislation Whether or not you agree with mandatory seat belt legislation is beside the point at the moment he suggested The point is seat belts work and we ve got the figures to prove it They ve been published time and time again yet people seem to dismiss them so easily A report released last year by the ministry of transportation and communications stated that out of the 827 drivers killed in Ontario in 1972 only were known to be using seat belts A further look at the Ministry figures shows that one out of every belted drivers involved in collisions that year was killed One out of every belted drivers was killed You don t have to be a mathematician to see that wearing seat belts can decrease your chance of dying in a highway collision by some 50 per cent And these figures are not from Australia Sweden or France they are from Ontario ECHOES FROM THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO Cadet Maj Larry and Cadet Dennis received major awards during annual Inspection at Georgetown armory Another cadet Mike Pratt was made cadet captain Neighboring residents Mr and Mrs Syd protested construction of a town storage garage of former sewage disposal property on Main Street south The couple planned to appeal a decision of the committee of ad granting the town permission to Id the garage contrary to provisions of the zoning An Acton man Alfred Long who had taken two trips to Africa to Kenya and Tanganyika showed films of an African safari during a visit to the Brotherhood of Anglican Churchmen at their spring dinner A young man who had instructed clastic in judo was the newest member of the Georgetown police force Harry liberty Kale started as a probationary con stable YEARS AGO Robert Cunningham member of the board of School Area presented the Burlington Cup to Sylvia Lambert for Georgetown High School winning entry in the choir group at Helton a Music Festival READER S FORUM IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I LAUGH VIEWPOINT Being Surface Beautiful Leads To Terra There appears to be a strange coincidence between the relationship to the various types of protection available to today We have products that protect us from unslightly dandruff bad breath body odor and heaven forbid that we should show any gray hair The Ideal of every man woman and child according to the ad men Is to become one of the beautiful people Who would show even alight surprise to find on the market shelf a small brush and foam lather for those who want to keep their navels cleaner than clean While we continue to spend millions and millions of dollar annually to achieve the goal of being surface beautiful and protected from every possible natural odor we are loosing the protection of being able to walk down our streets safely The more our bodies become am natural causes odor and age the more protected we become to physical violence A recent news story told of an apartment In Misslssauga that had been vandalised The television set stereo and some other furniture had been smashed Furniture was smeared with nail polish garbage was strewn about and even the pet ham paler was drowned The sad part was the vandals were three boys each five years old Apartment owners have been hard hit with this particular form of van Many are now using hour security guards whose maintenance costs are passed on to the tenant In rent Increases Violence Is the direct result of misplaced aggression Society has to open Its eyes and take its head from the IMPERSONALITY Michael Jacobs Is he director of the Crisis in terventlon Unit of Toronto East General Hospital In an open letter to the Star he tells us that suicide among young people Is reaching epidemic proportions The relation between the two Is that young people are faced with a society that has A Georgetown man Bill Campbell stationed at Northwest Territories was promoted to corporal with the RCMP He is the son of John Campbell A Georgetown High School student was named Intermediate One of a group of local athletes placed first in three events standing broad lump running broad jump and the 75yard dash 30 YEARS AGO Norval Soy Club held its first father and son banquet Arrangements for the banquet were In charge of the club president Rev Leonard J Self of Presbyterian Church Rev S R of St Paul Anglican Church acted as toaitmaster Georgetown was represented at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society meeting in Toronto by S for the town ana A Speight of the board of trade Council decided to purchase BOO In bonds during the Sixth victory Loan Drive Joint chairman of the local drive Bradley and LE Fleck appeared before council to speak In support of the loan become Impersonal and places value on the amount of personal wealth collected It stands to reason that as Inflation Increases the ability of the young person to become what society presents as the Ideal In dividual a beautiful per son becomes more and an impossibility The aggression we are seeing in our young people today is the direct result or the unrealistic goals we have presented Detroit which has the Infamous reputation of being the murder capital of the world has had since January murders to date Gun registrations In that one out of every 10 persons is licensed to carry a pistol Guns have but one purpose to kill The person who purchases a gun makes a commitment to the fact that he or she at some point may kill Yet when we read of instances of grave bodily harm such as the Toronto woman who was kicked to the ground lost we can understand the fear that the individual alone on the street can develop Insensitivity to others lmpersona ligation frustration and lack of self worth are the main actors for what we are witnessing The Vietnamese war was the first war to be brought live and in living color into our living rooms In the begin experts told us that the outrage of the viewers would quickly put a stop to these atrocities They were very much mistaken Instead we became accustomed to the violence and either continued to watch or turned to a John Wayne war and never really saw a difference between the two SPORTS VIOLENCE Violence in our sports such as hockey is another example of what we all tolerate Clarence Campbell of the NHL has maintained that fighting In hockey acts as an escape valve We would question the type of thinking that says mans aggression must be taken out fellow man Human aggression is a learned not an Innate behavior pattern We cannot stop the violence In our society without being aware of why we have allowed ourselves to become desensitized What we are witnessing now Is but Ihe forerunner of thing to come Arnold the distinguished British historian sees violence as a necessary and inevitable part of our future A society that is declining materially may be ascending spiritually In some respects what we see may be a blessing In disguise If we can only rise to this grave caslon Therein lies the rub Can we rise to the occasion Do we care enough to speak out now or will we become merely apathetic and passive until we regress back to the Stone Age Overhead Lines Wires Are Boating Hazards With the advent of the boating season Ontario Hydro has Issued Its annual warning to Inland sailors Around marinas cot ages and docking facilities generally there are overhead electric wires which present hazards when taking boats In or out of the water said Don Grant director of Hydros Health and Safely division Too often boaters don take the time to look up and look out for electric wires These lines provide the necessary electricity to shore line faculties but if a mast comes in contact with them serious accidents or a fatality can happen Grant said even wooden masts with metal guy wires and metal stays can cause trouble Fluctuating water levels provide another possible hazard A rise of a foot can put a mast dangerously close to a line Ontario was fortunate the last two years No accidents or fatalities to boaters were recorded because of overhead lines However three fatalities and six were traced to this cause in and Education Philosophy- Is Campbells Concern Sir I gather from your editorial Bucking the System Mayl that there is an apparent misunderstanding of the circumstances associated with my initial protest concerning what I consider alarming trends in public education I do not blame the board of education for a failure to a hearing for my complaint I withheld my property taxes as a conscientious response to a public educational system dominated by a secular totalitarianism which I could not support voluntarily As you can gather from the enclosed copies of my original letter of protest to Milton Mayor Anne MacArthur and my personal letter to M Robinson high school principal Craig 1 went public because I was protesting trends In basic philosophy of public education which can only be corrected through an arousing of the public As I said to Mayor MacArthur this disease demands surgery not a The disease which I specified was totalitarian secularism with overtones of sexual fascism I made It clear from the start that the offensive literature and gay lib visit were In my opinion only symptoms of the disease If I were dealing with the symptoms only I could have found an adequate hearing from responsible educators along normal channels But since it was the trends In the philosophy underlying the entire system which I was protesting the only way I could do so conscientiously was by the withholding of the educational portion of my property taxes That made news and the at of the public on the problem REAL PROBLEM As I listened to the com plaint of many other parents who contacted me over the two weeks sub sequent to my public protest It became clear to me that the real problem Is the lack of responsiveness of the system to the parents and tax payers Hence the essence of the Renaissance crusade Is the determination of parents and tax payers to regain decisive control of the public educational system in Halton region Thatlsasltought to be and we are convinced that what ought to be can be Since our cause Is tlally a civil rights Issue for which every responsible and fair minded citizen ought to be concerned we are con fident that we will be able to articulate proposals for the consideration of the board of trustees which will have the support of the great silent majority Ceilings Up On Spending For Schools In a move aimed at helping school boards cope wltn inflation education minister Thomas Wells announced a per cent increase in the expenditure ceilings The revised ceilings are 704 per elementary school students representing an increase of per cent over last year secondary school student an increase of per cent over Mr Wells said that since the original ceilings were announced last August it had become quite evident that inflation was having significant impact on school board spending He said that the Ministry was concerned that boards might be forced to make budget decisions that could have a detrimental effect on educational programs Mr Wells said hat the adjustment of the ceilings does not constitute a change in government policy The need for such an ind pendent advisory body of concerned parents and taxpayers was mended by the consul live committee at the time the regional educational structures were established With the drift toward the domination of education by a well paid and often in sensitive bureaucracy becoming more and more apparent the need for such a taxpayer advisory as the Renaissance Committee is becoming more and more evident to thoughtful citizens So we will keep pun ching and are moat op timistic of inevitable impact of the Renaissance Committee for the improvement of the public educational system Thank you for your en courage men Ken Campbell Chairman The Halton Renaissance Committee Insulation Plea Made By Energy Industries Organizations represen ting the energy industry En Canada have Joined forces in a conservation bid aimed at upgrading Insulation a tan for residential con struction The oil gas and electric Industries are seeking changes in the National Building Code which could result In energy savings of about per cent in new homes They want the changes Incorporated In a revised national code due to be published in 1975 A decision on the request is expected from the Associate Committee of the National Building Code In July of this year The appeal was made in a brief submitted to the committee by a joint energy industry task force headed by CE Rickards of the Canadian Gob Association The other organizations involved are the Canadian Electrical Association the Ontario Petroleum Association the Quebec petroleum Association and the OH Heating Association of British Columbia All segments of the energy Industry feel bo strongly about conservation that this united front was established Mr said APPEALS Appeals have also gone out to the 10 provincial govern ments the Prime Minister and other political figures for support Because of the increasing QUEEN S PARK escalating all forms of energy the oil gas and electrical Industries believe that It Is essential and in the national Interest to conserve energy used In the heating of residences the brief states Energy consumed in buildings classified for residential occupancy presently accounts for a significant portion of all energy consumption in Canada Energy reduction from residences could be redirected to Industrial applications to strengthen the economic well being of the country At present the National Building Code states only that homes should have sufficient thermal insulation to prevent moisture con dcnsatlon on walls ceilings and floors during winter Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation has Its own suggested minimum requ rements for insulation Mr says the Jo industry task force wants insulation standards to be more than doubled overall from the existing CMHC mini mums and wants them to be mandatory While the brief specifies Insulation it also suggests that aspects such as window sizes and glazing heat recovery systems from waste water and exhaust air solar screening to reduce cooling load and controlled ventilation methods should eventually be considered Speculation Tax Brings Indecision Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO The real estate Industry and any sections of the public with a direct interest are In a state of perplexity over the government land speculation tax So also one suspects Is the government Apparently the decision to impose the tax and then the subsequent legislation were rushed through In such a hurry that there is quite a shambles The situation is not as bad as it was with last years energy tax which eventually had to be withdrawn But even the government admits that the speculation tax needs a lot of repair work before It can possibly func lion And the at least doubts that even with repairs It will do what it is tended to do In the second reading debate on principle op position party critics and even a few from the government side uncovered numerous weaknesses in the bill As Just one example the legislation would provide for a per cent tax on speculative profits On top of this there would be the regular income taxes which would bring the total to more than per cent But It could rise even higher would happen the federal government allow the original cent as a deduct ble lis I expense If tddnt the take could mount to no per cent And at the me of the introduction of the leg station nobody had discussed this with Ottawa DEFEATS ITSELF Most pert nent of all however is that tax could be selfdefeating The purpose of Introducing t was to try and force more homo building lots on the market There are three broad segments In the housing industry speculators developers and Iders The key Is the development segment Developers buy big parcels of land from speculators or somet on their own put in the sewers roads and other services and then sell off serviced lots to builders while also usually doing some building themselves The forecast by the and they appear to be r Is that if the developers have to pay the speculation tax on sales to builders they will Just sit on their land except for lots they build on themselves The result would be on even greater shortage of serviced lots catastrophe tor the many small builders BILL SMILEY Once Is Enough For Teachers Movie Career Several Items this week none of them large enough to write a column about but each of them of such vital importance to the state of the world that they must not be ignored Germany a couple of leftovers Prostitution Is legal there In Kaiser there a rather bleak four storey building Probably financed by American aid It is a shall we say house of 111 repute In their rude and licentious way the soldiery call it Four floors of whores which has a nice echoic ring to it But what caught my eye at 11 a m was the huge neon sign on top of the building It read r MIT heart The word heart was not spelled out but represented by a huge red Valentine type heart in neon A nice touch GOOD MICK Another place In the same city was Horry He has a good gimmick which 1 like to sec Eaton and Simpsons adopt It is a clip joint far suspecting North Americans There arc no Germans in the place But you can buyanytnlngfrom a Hummel to a vast lousy painting However his gimmick getsem When you in the door you are offered a coke a coffee or a beer And when you leave you are offered free gift comb nail file plastic car key ho sun 11 but its amort In a lot of Canadian stored all you are offered is a slice of cold shoulder Trees The Germans treat their trees as we would roses They are carefully husbanded and even wifed and produce the expectant harvest They are then cut up as carefully as bread We ours down and hum Nut II at I want to live Germany to live In n country where trains ru on lime and highway signs toy something as as I was Involved In the making of a movie I am here to declare by the grace of God that I do not now or want to be a movie star a supporting actor or an extra You guessed it I was an Unpaid spent a spring afternoon rum up and down hills Get Kill him Hung him in a soldier niform and brandishing a stout club Why I as a solldcr was carrying a club Instead of a musket I don know but extras don t question do they Trouble was with the movie that we extras know what the hell was going on We puffed up and down the hills got slapped in the eye by willow switches and Jumped over logs waving our clubs menacingly It was pretty exciting The first time Then we did ft over and over again because someone had forgotten to take off the sunglasses or the watch It was a period piece and the beer cans and coke bottles d fit into the W century milieu MANY SHOTS Must admire the cameraman though He climbed about forty feet into a tree to take down shots of us Idiots running through the woods yelling Kill hlml Get Him and such Then he lay under a log shooting up getting crotch shots and feet shots as we did the same thing Then he waded Into a river April and did the same thing he ran backwards with a hand camera while we raced or stumbled toward him shouting the same stuff He tripped a couple of times over trees cut down with a chain saw Biggest problem was not to laugnauring shooting as we There Is something eminently hilarious about a collection of middle aged some of them with and heart attacks walking back up a hill for the fifth time In order to come running down it again because some silly asa had cried In excitement Go get him Mike Instead of Kill Kill and the sound man had picked up the modern expression DEPRESSION Not the psychiatric kind Ihe economic kind I feel it in my bones There a big depression coming Jolly good is what I say We haven had a decent depression In country Tor years There almost a desire for one The kids of course don Heard a girl say today to another Vu money The other replied Yabudy grots Priorities But old folks now In fact they almost have a nostalgia for It bran about It Lumpy porridge Instead of Krlnkly Krun chles Hamburger two pounds for two bits Mailmen working and danged glad to have a Job ditto Therearebooks Ten Lost Years and plays dramatizing the And it was dramatic I was there For ten Lost Years And I dldn feci they were lost Ask anyone If you can find him Or her