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The Herald Home Newspaper of Hills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario 16 Mi 1 1 Street Acton Ontario RICHARD CAMERON Page THE HERALD Wednesday September IS l74 WHETTED DAILY Our Appetite For Violence There was a time in Ontario a century ago when crowds would gather to watch the spectacle of a public execution Eventually it was decided that if a man were to be hanged he should at least be allowed to die in peace The move was hailed as a grand step forward in mans showing of his humanity But though a policy may have been changed man remained the same If the public had been allowed to continue seeing criminals executed they would eagerly have continued to come Nor have we changed today Our idea of an evenings en tertainment is to watch stories of half a dozen murders on television its an interesting exercise to count the number of fights and deaths portrayed on an average evenings TV would probably be amazed by your tally The latest hit movie in Toronto is Death Wish about a New Yorker who makes the audience literally cheer each time he kills a mugger Aristotle had a theory that if we could see such grisly things on the stage emotional experience would rid us of the desire to do the same things in real life But his theory does not seem to work in practice When Clockwork Orange was the rage in London the transients who slept along the embankment by the Thames found themselves the victims of an unprecedented number of beatings after the pattern of senseless violence that the movie was popularizing As our cities become in creasingly unsafe our amusements become more and more the bloody that pretend to be art because of their realism Instead of turning us away from violence- the Bights we see on the box and in the theatre simply seem to whet our appetite for more Some of those who paid dollars to watch Evel Knievels supercycle jump across the Snake River Canyon on closed circuit television at a theatre or many more dollars to be on the site complained that they had been ripped off Of course they didnt get their moneys worththe man survived and they had gone to watch him die Knievels actions may be foolhardy but the actions of the thousands of voyeurs who paid out their dollars to urge him on to tempt death are frightening We wonder what will be next Are we not far removed from the days of public executions Driver Slower Or Slowly Last winters oilshortage crisis which never really occurred in Ontario may have faded but the longterm need for fuel con servation Is still very much on many minds including those in government In Ontario a provincial government group is looking at various ways to slow gasoline consumption One idea now pay attention all you car drivers is to introduce a system of compulsory for vehicles to given at special government test centres As most of us know or at least should realize a poorly tuned vehicle engine uses more gasoline than one that is properly tuned Another idea is to reduce motor vehicle licences to a nominal amount but then raise gasoline taxes sharply perhaps even doubling them or more Such a move is supposed to make motorists think twice about charging along streets and high ways at excessive speeds Ga- speeds of or 80 would be out and drivers would be forced to proceed at a more leisurely pace such as or Or course such actions are at the thinktank level It mav be years yet before we have to employ such excessive fuel conservation measures And besides if we make it too costly to drive in Ontario people especially tourists might not come here Are You Worth A Million Before very much longer executives in the United States will be paid in excess of a year Admittedly there will be only a handful because even with inflation this is considered a lot of money In General Motors paid its top executives Chairman Richard Gertsenberg was paid a total of One question that arises is this despite the high taxes an executive might pay despite his long hours despite the responsibilitycan any one man truly earn a year Clearly a few already are paid almost that Do they deserve such excessive salaries Rumuneration such as this must be seen in the light of not just North American but global realities The United Nations the World Bank regional development banks and many other national and in ternational agencies are trying to cope with a poverty problem that boggles the mind Hundreds of millions are malnourished or starving The World Bank is supporting a rural development project in a region of Tanzania where people are earning annual per capita incomes of 20 less than 50 cents a week in terms of our purchasing power Surely no salaried executive can say in all honesty he deserves to be paid 50000 times as much as the poor not only of Tanzania but also of far too many regions around the world where people are hungry and starving The search for greater social and economic justice in the world should be carried on not just in the developing countries where ad mittedly inequities exist It should be carried on also in the rich countries where privilege and excessive wealth also live side by side with poverty ECHOES FROM THE PAST YEARS AGO Halton Terminal Warehouse opened on Armstrong Avenue In Georgetown with Rosa manager and John Perry aa director point that goods could get to Georgetown Brampton Cleave reunion was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Hyatt McClure with more than persona attending and It was decided to make the gathering an annual affair Harold Cleave of Georgetown was named president of a new executive to plan the gatherings Georgetown offered to the United Church of Canada for the Cedarvale school property The town had plana to make the purchase Into a recreational facility Coun Bill Smith told town council- We cant af ford not to acquire this Norman J assistant general manager of and Company In Acton was on his way to Paris to attend an International leather snow and to promote the companys products Norval group committee of cubs and scouts met at the borne of Tom to make the Anglican Church YEARS AGO Georgetown council voted to renew its agreement with Ontario Provincial Police despite some objections Reeve Stan Allen was opposed saying he does not favor a policing system which operates outside the controTof council Ending a season which promised bigger things Georgetown lost a close match to to spell finis to their hopes for a second Ontario championship The local team had only a brier lead on a goal by Bob McCandless and dropped the match YEARS AGO Fred Castle overseas since 1941 arrived back In Canada serving with a prisonerofwar escort Ho took part in the allied invasions of Italy and Sicily Harold Wheeler wellknown Glen Williams roldent purchased general store in the Glen The business formerly was operated by William Schenlc Mrs W Smith was elected to head a retail committee on the Georgetown Board of Trade Serving with her were Sid Silver Joseph Gibbons C J BuckRWRobbAW Benton and Allen Norton Visitor Jack discussed the week and suggested that stores In smaller communities should be open two evenings a week Girls Garden Achievement Day at Ma re lie Principal Walter Carpenter reported that 120 students were enrolled at Georgetown High School this year Rugby and basketball already were being organized Sgt Duncan Tost son of Mrs Fred Tost serving In France wrote home about experiences when the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed allied troops In Nor mandy Hecalledttahellofaday VIEWPOINT UNCLAIMED BUGGIES This collection of shopping carts has been resting at the comer of Sinclair Avenue and Duncan Drive In Georgetown in the swamp at the lower end of the Georgetown Market Centre since the addition was completed and new stores were opened At a cost of more than MO each you would think that some store using such carta would claim them BILL SMILEY Holidays In September Good Time To Remember It were a young fellow starting all over again I would try to finagle myself into a job where I could take my holidays in September preferably stretching them to about the middle of Oc tober These are the golden months In this country I know Ive lived here longer nan 1 care to remember October is beautiful but September is bountiful beneficent and blessed by a Higher Power And I dont mean the Hydro The other socalled summer months are a pain In the arm June Is hot and humid and mosquitoes July and August are impossible stifling when youre trying to sleep or raining when youre trying to camp November la fit only for Remembrance Day when even the birds weep because the overhead clouds Is so low they cant even fly COMMERCIALIZED MESS December Is a hectic commercialized mess when you dont know whether youre going to have a green Christmas meaning dirty and sloppy and slushy or a white Christmas meaning up to your navel In snow January is a Ions for bidding month something like a long forbidding school teacher with a drip on his nose frozen It promises nothing threatens much February Is snorter but sneakier Itsnowsandsnows and It gets colder and colder And you get the flu and you get sickening cards from friends who have gone south for the winter I January and February unmarried spawn March which is like something illegitimate borne by a drab in a ditch Occasionally it turns out to be a beautiful child but nine times out of ten It is retarded April Browning writing from Italy said Oh to be in England now that Aprils there Maybe England But another poet Eliot must have been referring to Canada when he said April Is the cruellest month Theres not much snow left except in the woods and shadowed cor ners but thats about all you can say about It Then as most of us know cornea May Ah May the burgeoning of Spring the little tender shoots coming out on the trees the sun warming up the trout running summer just around the comer NAMED MAY Girls who have been named May must be very capricious May can be glorious warm a thawing of the frozen Canadian sou a realization that you have once again got through a Canadian winter without committing suicide This year May showed her other side 1 know a place not too far away where anglers on opening day were casting their lures onto a thin skin of Ice not water And the trout were running alright Right underneath the ice There is no evidence that any of them smashed up through the ice to snatch at a lure This year even the crows had a rasp in their throats when they cawed Well that about takes care of the Canadian calendar Ive already dealt with the socalled summer months Tourists and mosquitoes In about equal proportions The tourists get their blood sucked and the mosquitoes suck our blood If I had to choose between QUEENS PARK Travelling Bill Is Off To Italy a tourist who kicked sand In my face at the beach tail- gated me on the highway and crowded me off the golf course and a mosquito who merely wanted a quiet four ounces of my blood Id have a hard time choosing NO TOURISTS That leaves only Sep tember and October No tourists no mosquitoes no snow Just yellow sunshine a bountiful larder of the harvest warm days cool nights when sleep is deep and sweet Everything Is green still In September I can visualize a fishing camp good food a chilly swim a fire and sweaters good conversation with good friends a game of chess early to bed and up earlv for a try at the fish some books no telephone no wife no kids If this sounds like male chauvinism it is This is perhaps one of the things the more strident feminists in our midst ab sorbed Once in a while he must get away from his woman Hes not trying to prove his manhood or anything psychological like that Hes merely trying to save his sanity Hes sick right to the heart of hearing what Mabel said to Marjorie and what Is going to do about Jock who drinks too much and what Mabel is going to do about her kid who Is smoking pot Maybe Im a male chauvinist but Im not a pig Ive changed diapers done dishes scrubbed floors fed babies long before Womens Lib became fashionable But once In a while I have to get away from my woman with the other braves and exchange male fopperies foolishness and farout stories Today we take a sauna bath Ill bet that a hundred years ago and Sneaky took off for a months hunting and fishing when they could no longer stand Myrtle White- Father and Mary SixBabies gossiping about their babies And Ill bet they took it In September So Goes The United States So Goes Entire Free World By In when the American President Abraham Lincoln made his now famous Get- Watergate scandal and the ensuing results have taken true democracy from the American people At a time when the only comfort to be attained from Watergate was that democracy really does work President Gerald Fords full and absolute pardon of Richard Nixon has again plunged the nation into doubt and suspicion Once again cries of im peachment against a President of the United States are heard This time it is against a man who has not been in office for two full months a man who wasi presented to the people as solid honest a man of conviction a man without enemies a regular hometown boy CONSCIENCE Gerald Ford in granting the pardon spoke of mercy and the duty of his con science Whatever hap pened to the conscience of the American people who as president the highest form of office Gerald Ford Is supposed to represent Mercy la an admirable trait In anyone but It Is not In keeping with the accepted system of trial through the courts and then mercy Equal justice depends on The prisons are full of men and women for whom the public would feel compassion and Indeed mercy If the exact stories of their lives were known One cannot believe that if Mr Nixon hod been tried through the court and then pardoned that the people of the United States would have withheld mercy We all know that Nixon as a man has suffered as much public and personal degradation as possible to confine him in a Jail would not serve Justice The natural punushment of being a fallen world leader the loss of power is perhaps the greatest punishment of all Mercy yes but justice through the proper channels In America today the keyword seems to be conscience It seems political leaders can Irate almost anything if It in keeping with the dic tates of their conscience What has happened to the conscience of the people- conscience by the people and for the people PARDONS At the time of this writing It Is being suggested that pardons for all Watergate offenders is under con sideration When and if such a thing happens the people of America will no longer live in a demoncracy In effect in order to justify such a thing all burglars spies perjurers and those guilty of manipulation of public funds would have to be set free There is no equal justice in what Gerald Ford has done Ending the Watergate tranedv was fundamental to restoring faith and trust In the American government The manner In which Gerald Ford has chosen to do so however has succeeded in what Senator Robert Byrd has called the cover up of coverups The general public op I on is someone got to Mr Ford As recent as Aug 28 Mr READERS FORUM Board Is Taken To Task Over School Closing Sir I have been following the events involving your board with regards to the Norval school Issue Let me first point out to member William Lawson and any others to whom this applies that any elected member of any board private or public Is accountable to elec torate for the manner in which he represents them He can vote according to his own Judgment as he stated but in such case he should not waste his time or money on another election campaign Usually the people know what is best for them You were all voted into office by people who believed you would represent them honestly This is called the democratic system Mr Lawson and people who think like him are ignorant of the basic concepts of government Another agreeable ad vantage of the democratic system is Its flexibility When something is not functioning successfully in Its present form it Is easily changed When It Is proven to the elected members as was the case Involving the Norval school that the electorate were not nappy that there was Indeed a workable alternative that there was widespread support for the attitude of the citizens of the board members are more than foolish to Ignore this They are unreasonable People who cannot change their minds when proved wrong are usually Illeducated or immature or insecure or all of these things A system is only as good the people elected to run It If I were under the jurisdiction of the School Board which I am not I would be very uneasy at least up until the next election I believe the people of Halton County who are not already concerned will soon be so understand that some of these board- members went In by ac clamation One of these was member Lawson The ob vious thing to say would be that Halton County got what it deserved but I hesitate to say this as I know there are many concerned people in the North area My sympathy is extended to all the Norval people who fought so courageously They have lost a battle However to the members of the Halton School Board I would like to point out that YOU have definitely NOT won the war Joyce Button Streetsville Ford did not see a pardon for Mr Nixon What caused him to change his mind Personal com passion for a dangerously depressed Richard Nixon would not in itself be suf ficient reasonand if it were Mr Ford cannot remain in office If personal feelings come before the welfare of the majority One cannot fathom the reasoning behind Fords surprise decision and nothing printed thus far has done anything to change this Abraham Lincoln said The dogmas of the quiet past are insufficient to the present struggle Well the past has been anything but quiet but the truth of the statement applies perhaps more so today than It did 100 years ago when It was written Gerald Fords decision will be In effect worse than the crimes of Watergate the people did not want a pound of flesh they wanted justice to see the system worked for rich and poor alike Justice can be tempered with mercy but one cannot give mercy before justice to do so shakes the basic fun damentals on which equality for all Is based The world soberly watches In grim bewilderment for as It goes in the United States of America so will It follow in the rest of the free world Residents Participated About residents participated in the recent Halton Farmstead and Rural Homes improvement competition We wanted to get people to spruce up their places for the plowing match to make us proud of Halton ex plained Gerald Carton chairman of the competition committee So we offered cash prizes and an aerial photograph of their property donated by the Glen Eton Company The first prize for the most Improvements following two In 1973 and went to Rock Harris Milton for farmsteads and to Joseph RR Georgetown in the rural homes class Ford Trafalgar Rd Georgetown won first prize for im provements he had already made before the competition was initiated Besides the cheque and photo first prize winners received a sliver tea service donated by the Robert Simpson Company Second prize in each category BUI Gregg farmstead DavidMoffat Hornby- rural homes Limestone Hall Farms Milton already Improved ISO cheques also went to third and fourth and fifth prize winners Prizes were presented at a special banquet held on August 7 to which all con testants were Invited and each received a plaque Improper Preparation Danger Of Preserves Ministry of Health today cautioned residents that improper preparation of home preserves can result in botulism a form of food poisoning Botulism poisoning leads to paralysis of limbs respiratory failure and death in per cent of recorded cases The botulism microbe commonly present in soil is counteracted by acid Therefore home canned fruits and tomatoes of the standard variety do not normally become con taminated All other vegetables Including the golden yellow low acid tomato must be home processed In the container at temperatures considerably higher than the boilding point of water to destroy the botulism microbe For safe preservation of vegetables a pressure cooker should always be used Different vegetables require different pressures and cooking times to attain the specific temperature needed to kill the botulism microbe Reliable cook books and pressure cooker manuals will provide correct processing times and pressures As an added safeguard all home vegetable preserves should be boiled in their liquid for at least 15 minutes before tasting or serving 20 minutes for corn or squash By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO Ladolcevlta Premier Davis has always liked travel but this time he Ib exceeding himself A month from now the premier will be in he final stages of a grand tour of Italy Grand tour Really grand For two weeks he will be visiting cities towns villages and hamlets with a whole planeload of Italians from across the province as his escort It is doubtful If the land of the sun and the grape will have seen such an invasion since the war MANY ITALIANS This is politics of course There are even some cynics among pundits who have classed the junket as the first shot In the 1975 election campaign The reason It ft political is that It is estimated there are now at least Italians who emigrated from Italy living in Ontario And In addition there ore many many more who are of Italian descent These people are closely knit and as a group they have tended to vote Liberal So Mr Davis It Is assumed has decided that a way of getting to them is to carry the Tight to their home land If he can become a folk hero In Italy he may become A hero to its sons and daughters here It is at least novel elec tioneering And who can say it might work At most it only means two weeks of effort and perhaps a few cases of indigestion as he frantically travels throughout the country and indulges in the rich food with which he undoubtedly will be swamped THE OTHERS But then having done this for the Italians where does the trail end Does he have to do It for other groups There are now said to be blacks in Toronto Does this mean trips to Jamaica and the other Islands In the Caribbean What about the Finns and the Poles the Portuguese and the many other groups now so widely represented In Ontario Is he alio going to visit their homelands We may end up by calling him Travelling Bill OOMPAH PAH PAH The Schmaltz and Lena Plckelhelmer family band from New Dundee tune up for this yearB Pioneer Festival to be held at Black Creek Pioneer Village on Saturday September The German band is just one of many colorful attractions for this years including demonstrations of arts crafts and chores that recall life In rural Ontario lots of coun trystyle cooking a quilt auction a Mennonlte far- men market spelling Dees and numerous other ac tivities for family en joyment Black Creek is located at Jane Street and Avenue in northwest Metro Toronto